Posted on 07/24/2005 12:37:25 AM PDT by doug from upland
Frightening Quotes from Environmentalists (Attack Of The Socialist-Luddites)
The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
—Kenneth Boulding, originator of the “Spaceship Earth” concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)
We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!
—Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue).
Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…. Capitalism is destroying the earth.
—Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects…. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.
—David Foreman, Earth First!
Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.
—Pentti Linkola
If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won’t give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.
—Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth–Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
—John Shuttleworth
What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
—Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.
—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.
—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing....This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.
—Economist editorial
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
—David Foreman, Earth First!
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
—Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS
—Earth First! Newsletter
Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.
—David Graber, biologist, National Park Service
The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans.
—Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project
If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.
—Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund
Cannibalism is a “radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.”
—Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
Poverty For “Those People”
We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels.
—Carl Amery
Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.
—Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.
—Lamont Cole
If there is going to be electricity, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered.
—Gar Smith, editor of the Earth Island Institute’s online magazine The Edge
The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don’t suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them.
—Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population.
—Reid Bryson, “Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man”, (1971)
The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer.
—Paul Ehrlich, in The Population Bomb (1968)
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
—Paul Ehrlich in (1969)
In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
—Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)
Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity…in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion.
—Paul Ehrlich in (1976)
This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.
—Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976
There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production—with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon… The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it.
—Newsweek, April 28, (1975)
This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.
—Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling”, 1976
If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. … This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.
—Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)
Don't you think most hunters and fishermen are conservative?
We love the environment and don't want to see it destroyed..Things like Ducks Unlimited for example..TR first established the National Parks..Boy Scouts respect and love the environment..things like that..
Assisting in their returning to dust would be a poetic form of recycling. I can't see how they would disapprove.
Arrest them and put them in a walled compound set up with all the conveniences of the 14th Century. Give them nothing at all but what they would have had in the 14th Century, and leave them alone.
That will make them happy and us happy and will be a useful experiment for historians -- and a nice lesson for the rest of them too.
Call me an enviro-nut but I could go for owning a casino and selling tax-free cigarettes.
Yep! John Clark's stock went up quite a few points with me with his solution to the enviro-wackos at the end of "Rainbow Six."
I suspect none of these people would survive for two weeks out in the bush. In fact, you could drop these savages into a remote valley filled with wild food, and these maggots wouldn't know what's good to eat unless they saw an apple on a stand with a label that says "organic."
Ugh
After a few weeks in a "Stone Age", these bozos would be begging for some hunters to protect them from the wolves and big cats...
"They are people who have never been hungry, never done any hard physical work, never been seriously cold..."
How right you are. I saw this first hand over 30 years ago when some spoiled rich kids bought a "farm" and formed a commune. Perhaps the greatest contradicition I had witnessed at that time was their dependence on Food Stamps - for which they qualified because they had small children and none of them worked.
When I was young, I enjoyed reading Thoreau, because he wrote of self-reliance. These folks never ever approached being self reliant when mom and dad were just a phone call away.
Pretty frightening stuff here.
"I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."Keep these people talking! In fact, give 'em megaphones."The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing...."
"To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem."
Here's a good rule of thumb:
If the "environmentalists" are for it, oppose it. If they're against it, support it.
Wrong! But you can see how somebody who associates only with people like these could come to this conclusion.
I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.
The magnitude of the ever-present cognitive disconnect these people suffer stunes my beeber. Sheesh! Smallpox (and other diseases their immune systems were unprepared for) did a great deal to wipe out Indian populations...
Warren Hern - abortionist
Agreed. In fact, they'd likely starve to death or poison themselves since I doubt that they would deign to kill any game for food, many of these freaks being vegetarians and unschooled in what you can eat and what you can't.
I think the finest example of honest communal living is the Amish. They have managed to build up themselves a highly admired society which actually is societally productive. These people would never depend on food stamps, but they are not shy about hard work either. The key difference here is that they have a common belief in a transformative deity (Born Again) and a community committment to rejecting those who will not abide by their strict codes.
Even if the New ecofascist order could create something like this for a few brutal years, it would quickly be overturned. There's one thing that Communism, EcoFascism and Islamofascism have in common is that they all must have complete global control in order to function. There is no room for tolerance of any other philosophy or order. They all blame their failure on the success of other philosophies.
In contrast the Amish THRIVE in the community. They live with and trade with the community while living differently and apart from it. The Amish arent trying to save the world, they are focused on trying to save their own souls. Perhaps the EcoFascists could take a lesson.
"The Amish arent trying to save the world, they are focused on trying to save their own souls. Perhaps the EcoFascists could take a lesson."
This is a very good point. Environmentalists I have been acquainted with do not practice what they preach.
They scream "no war for oil", but drive cars that consume oil.
During the WTO demonstrations a few years ago, George Will wrote of how protestors travelled to Seattle by jet - a real departure from the early American pioneers they envision themselves as being.
While I admit to not knowing much about Amish life, and am not disregarding your point, one way of looking at the Amish is that even if they were out to change the world, the example they set is that changing the world always involves changing one's self first.
The earth's environment would be vastly improved is every one of these "experts" were fed to sharks.
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