Its a big number, but they were mostly third world children so their deaths are good for the earth:
Dr. Charles Wurster, former chief scientist for the Environmental Defense Fund, was once asked if he thought a ban on DDT might result in the use of more dangerous chemicals and more malaria cases in Sri Lanka. He replied, "Probably--so what? People are the cause of all the problems. We have too many of them. We need to get rid of some of them, and this is as good a way as any."
His views are hardly atypical. According to Earthbound, a collection of essays on so-called environmental ethics, "Massive human diebacks would be good. It is our duty to cause them. It is our species' duty, relative to the whole, to eliminate 90 percent of our numbers."
Former National Park Service research biologist David Graber famously remarked, "We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth. Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along."
"If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS," reads a 1989 Earth First! newsletter. "It has the potential to end industrialism, which is the main force behind the environmental crisis."
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