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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: LLCF who wrote (34410)	7/1/2011 2:05:30 PM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

Sorry, but some of them actually say stuff like that. Others just want the end of industrial civilization, at least for the great unwashed. James Lee, convinced by Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth' that humans are a plague species: .... Lee – as expressed on his website, SaveThePlanetProtest.com. He wants humans to: …live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children since those new additions continue pollution and are pollution. Much like The Ecologist, he believes human civilization should cease expanding and should be “reversed.” He thinks television shows should “stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants.” Instead, “programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility” should be aired. He believes humans to be “the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around and [that we] are wrecking what’s left of the planet.” .... nofrakkingconsensus.com That's two nuts Al Gore has inspired to commit violence - the Unabomber had a copy of Gore's Earth in the Balance, heavily underlined with notes in the margins in his Montana cabin. The Ecologist magazine editorial: .... The Ecologist, a magazine that claims to have set the environmental agenda for 40 years, said some ugly things in its debut editorial. Humans, it claimed, are planetary parasites. We are an infection, a “disease [that] has spread and is still spreading.” The editorial discusses “swarming human masses” and says that we, the food we produce, and the artifacts we manufacture all amount to waste products that make no ecological sense and serve no ecological purpose. As the last line of that 1970 editorial reveals, The Ecologist believes that halting “the spread of the disease with which [man] is afflicting the biosphere” is an admirable goal. ..... nofrakkingconsensus.com Quotes from various environmentalists: Jacques-Yves Cousteau, environmentalist and documentary maker: "It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized, and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable." John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal: "I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems." Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University population biologist: "We're at 6 billion people on the Earth, and that's roughly three times what the planet should have. About 2 billion is optimal." David Foreman, founder of Earth First!: "Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental." David M. Graber, research biologist for the National Park Service: "It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil-energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along." Alexander King, founder of the Malthusian Club of Rome: "My own doubts came when DDT was introduced. In Guyana, within two years, it had almost eliminated malaria. So my chief quarrel with DDT, in hindsight, is that it has greatly added to the population problem." Merton Lambert, former spokesman for the Rockefeller Foundation: "The world has a cancer, and that cancer is man." John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club: "Honorable representatives of the great saurians of older creation, may you long enjoy your lilies and rushes, and be blessed now and then with a mouthful of terror-stricken man by way of a dainty!" Prince Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh, leader of the World Wildlife Fund: "If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels." Maurice Strong, U.N. environmental leader: "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" Ted Turner, CNN founder, UN supporter, and environmentalist: "A total population of 250—300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal." Paul Watson, a founder of Greenpeace: "I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds."