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Just in case you haven’t stumbled across this, check out “The Green Agenda.”

Keep in mind taxpayers fund all these people. We the schleppers pay for these people to live better than most of us.

This one is teaching your kids (for a lot of $$)

“Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the
equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.”
- Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University

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The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many,
doing too well economically and burning too much oil.”
– Sir James Lovelock, BBC Interview

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“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to
about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”
-Dave Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!

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“Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the
affluent middle class - involving high meat intake,
use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning,
and suburban housing - are not sustainable.”
- Maurice Strong, Rio Earth Summit

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“Mankind is the most dangerous, destructive,
selfish and unethical animal on the earth.”
- Michael Fox, vice-president of The Humane Society

It’s hard to pick the most unbelievable statement. There’s lots to pick from here. They believe we should abandon technology. Are we to be hunter-gathers or is it OK to be a subsistence farmer? Shall we lie down with our cattle and wait until the snow melts dragging them out to the fields so that those with the strength to get up and eat might survive? (Description by Goethe — not that long ago in long-term thinking.) Some of us could make shoes — I digress ...