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The Ignorance of Anti-human David Attenborough
American Thinker ^
| January 23, 2013
| Selwyn Duke
Posted on 01/23/2013 10:45:30 AM PST by Paladins Prayer
Liberal icon Daniel Patrick Moynihan once said, "You're entitled to your own opinions, but you're not entitled to your own facts." But that was decades ago, and today more leftists than ever have graduated from confusion to delusion and believe they're entitled to their own fiction.
A good example is naturalist David Attenborough, who recently complained that man is a plague upon our planet. He warns that our burgeoning population will ensure that we consume the world's resources like a sun-occluding swarm of high-tech locusts. Writes The Telegraph:
"We are a plague on the Earth. It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now," he [Attenborough] told the Radio Times.
If brevity is the soul of not just wit but also delusion, we have a winner here. Four sentences, four falsehoods/fallacies -- a couple of which are getting a bit stale. There is....
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Unclassified
KEYWORDS: attenborough; control; environmentalism; population
Why doesn't Attenborough lead by example and off himself?
Great article exposing the truth, by the way.
To: Paladins Prayer
He was awesome in “The Great Escape”!
To: cotton1706
That was his brother Richard. David is the naturalist.
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posted on
01/23/2013 10:56:55 AM PST
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear on this good earth, I bid you stand, Men of the West)
To: mware
David is the naturalist?
OMG, I hope he doesn’t run around naked.......................
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posted on
01/23/2013 10:58:53 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Lincoln freed the slaves. Obama just got them ALL back......................)
To: mware
To: Paladins Prayer
This guy must have finally gotten around to reading those “Population Bomb” books from the 1960’s.
To: Paladins Prayer
A good example is naturalist David Attenborough, who recently complained that man is a plague upon our planet.
This entire viewpoint starts from a false premise (which is typical of leftwing "thinking"): that the Earth, in of itself, has value. The proper viewpoint is to realize that the Earth has NO value, except in what it can produce and support. In other words, the Earth's value can only be measured in terms of how well it supports its living species. Since mankind is the apex species on the planet, the Earth's greatest value is derived from supporting us.
Now, obviously, if we're smart, we'll recognize that we have to make certain limitations on our use of the planet in order for it to remain a habitable life-support system for us (don't eat the seedcorn, and all that), but the very idea that a spinning ball of rock in space has more value that the complex life that lives on it is so asinine and self-loathing that it could only be entertained by a brain-addled product of leftist indoctrination. Nobody gives a damn about global warming on Venus, because nothing lives there (that we know of). Likewise, if nothing lived on Earth, we wouldn't care how much sewage ran through the rivers. We only care because of the life that Earth supports, and humans are the apex life form. Humans are not a plague on the Earth - humans are the SOLE REASON for Earth to exist (and maybe cockroaches, after we all perish in nuclear hellfire).
In other words, go screw yourself, David Attenborough. If you're worried about over-population, kill yourself.
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posted on
01/23/2013 12:38:18 PM PST
by
fr_freak
To: Paladins Prayer
Besides himself Attenborough should convince Price Charles and Al Gore to off themselves too.
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