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To: zonder who wrote (993)	12/26/2002 1:16:02 PM
From: LindyBill	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 15987

Well, we have "Been there, Done That, and bought the T-Shirt" on this subject before, haven't we zonder? You think I am overreacting when I call them loonies, actually, I am being nice to them. Here is what you read from the consistent environmentalists. "The ending of the human epoch on Earth," writes philosopher Paul Taylor in Respect for Nature: A Theory of Environmental Ethics, "would most likely be greeted with a hearty 'Good riddance!'" In a glowing review of Bill McKibben's The End of Nature, biologist David M. Graber writes (Los Angeles Times , October 29, 1989): "Human happiness [is] not as important as a wild and healthy planet . . . Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along." This is the naked essence of environmentalism: it mourns the death of one whale or tree but actually welcomes the death of billions of people. A more malevolent, man-hating philosophy is unimaginable.