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"I'm shouting a warning as loud as I can - Humans are a catastrophe for the Earth"
National Post ^ | Nov. 30, 2015 | India Sturgis, The Telegraph

Posted on 11/30/2015 5:51:22 PM PST by rickmichaels

Thirty years ago, Louie Psihoyos watched as two young children were killed a few steps in front of him. On a blue-sky day near a market in Perkiomen, Pennsylvania, he noticed a family walking hand-in-hand beside the road ahead. A large van swept past and he saw that one of its giant wing mirrors would hit one of the children as it tore past. Psihoyos shouted, but it was too little too late. Both children were dragged beneath the van's wheels and crushed.

"They died right in front of me," says the 58-year-old, Oscar-winning filmmaker, his moss-green eyes stretching in incredulity.

"I have had to live with the idea that I didn't scream loud enough. I didn't do enough. I could have changed that family's life. Because I was too weak, I didn't do enough that day and I've had to live with it. I don't want to live with the idea I'm not doing enough now."

It's an arresting story, one that drove him to spend five years making his new documentary, Racing Extinction. In it, Psihoyos and scientists explain how man's impact on the Earth is driving a new mass extinction, killing species at 1,000 times the background rate (the normal rate of extinction throughout the Earth's history), and that within 100 years half of the world's species will be extinct.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.nationalpost.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: louiepsihoyos; pennsylvania; perkiomen; racingextinction
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1 posted on 11/30/2015 5:51:22 PM PST by rickmichaels
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Because I was too weak, I didn't do enough that day and I've had to live with it. I don't want to live with the idea I'm not doing enough now."

It's your pathology, not ours, pal.

2 posted on 11/30/2015 5:53:28 PM PST by o_1_2_3__
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To: o_1_2_3__

If he really believes that humans are a catastrophe for the earth, why should he feel any guilt over the deaths of those two children? He should be feeling joy that they died before they could be become adult catastrophes.

Better still, let him lead by example in eliminating at least one human catastrophe.


3 posted on 11/30/2015 5:59:50 PM PST by Loyalist (Who whom?)
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To: rickmichaels

His name is Psychos ?


4 posted on 11/30/2015 6:00:11 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: rickmichaels
The couple...divorced last year after she refused to give up meat....

'We were great for a certain amount of time, but it was hard to not get support when you spend your whole life, and every molecule in your body, trying to do this work. She wasn't supportive, she was still eating meat. That killed me.'

What a putz.

5 posted on 11/30/2015 6:00:13 PM PST by heartwood
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To: rickmichaels
"I have had to live with the idea that I didn't scream loud enough."

You have to live with the fact that you were screaming at the wrong ones.

6 posted on 11/30/2015 6:00:26 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: rickmichaels

Humans are as much a part of nature as tree frogs or algae. If humans are doing it, it is natural.


7 posted on 11/30/2015 6:00:57 PM PST by Blennos
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To: rickmichaels

Why don’t these self-loathing crybabies just kill themselves. By their account, the Erf will benefit and it will certainly make life better for those of us who understand that without a sentient species, the planet is just a place where animals eat, poop, screw, and die. There is no point to it existing at all without a species that can utilize the resources in a cunning and inventive way.

Humans aren’t a blight on Erf. We are the thing that gives it purpose.


8 posted on 11/30/2015 6:02:06 PM PST by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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To: heartwood
That killed me.

If only.

9 posted on 11/30/2015 6:02:56 PM PST by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: heartwood

He’s worried that chickens might go extinct?


10 posted on 11/30/2015 6:03:50 PM PST by marron
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To: Loyalist
Better still, let him lead by example in eliminating at least one human catastrophe.

That's is the nub of it. Leftists are the closest thing to "human catastrophes", in direct proportion to how much influence and power they can grab. And this guy wants to make movies.

11 posted on 11/30/2015 6:04:19 PM PST by o_1_2_3__
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To: rickmichaels

If there were no humans would the earth still exist? Or does it exist only because we think it does.


12 posted on 11/30/2015 6:06:53 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: rickmichaels

“I’m shouting a warning as loud as I can - Humans are a catastrophe for the Earth”

“I’m shouting a warning as loud as I can - SUN/Stars are a catastrophe for all the Earth type planets”


13 posted on 11/30/2015 6:07:27 PM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long)
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To: fieldmarshaldj
His name is Psychos ?

I noticed that too. I'm working on a theory that some people can be born sane but literally drive themselves to psychosis, like this nut, by obeying all the rules and tenets of left-liberalism.

14 posted on 11/30/2015 6:10:52 PM PST by driftless2 (For long term happiness, learn how to play the accordion)
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To: driftdiver

Read “The Crack in the Cosmic Egg.”

http://www.amazon.com/The-Crack-Cosmic-Egg-Constructs/dp/0892819944


15 posted on 11/30/2015 6:12:07 PM PST by sparklite2 (Islam = all bathwater, no baby.)
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To: rickmichaels

16 posted on 11/30/2015 6:13:17 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy" Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: rickmichaels

These environ-weenies capitalize on promoting fear. If these yahoos wanted to do something about the consequences of CO2, they would be creating products to combat it. Instead they are trolling for government grants and the benefits of wealth redistribution.


17 posted on 11/30/2015 6:13:24 PM PST by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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To: rickmichaels
Value judgments - for the materialist - are fundamentally irrational.

There is no such thing as "a catastrophe" for the earth.

Human beings - for the materialist - are simply natural productions of the earth, and what they do is simply act on natural impulses.

Besides the fact that Psihoyos is a vile individual, besides the fact that he has no authority to speak for "the earth" or to dictate terms to human beings, his position is absolutely ridiculous and self-contradictory.

18 posted on 11/30/2015 6:40:10 PM PST by wideawake
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To: rickmichaels

...humans are a catastrophe for the earth...

Another “God doesn’t know what he’s doing” expert.


19 posted on 11/30/2015 6:40:53 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Ready for Teddy, Cruz that is.)
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To: rickmichaels

Every time I see a promo for this show I want to shoot my TV. The HUBRIS of man. The last one said that we are the last generation to save planet Earth. It’s pathological, but not unexpected when you take God out of the equation.


20 posted on 11/30/2015 6:42:10 PM PST by Hildy
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