[Wilhelm Tell]

Pol Pot and the radical environmentalists have a similar philosophy. Pol Pot wanted to ban all learning, all science, all technology (except for the technology required for his death squads), and have people live as subsistence farmers in some huge collective. He wanted to force people to return to the stone age, and he didn't care how many people died in the process.

The radical environmentalists want the same things -- to return humanity to the stone age. These people are in revolt against 5,000 years of civilization. There is a certain mentality that does not know how to create, so instead it craves destruction for destruction's sake. In their world, 99% of people will live in prehistoric misery while the ruling class will live in luxury -- they will live in palaces and jet all over the world to environmental conferences and plan which group of humans is "overpopulated" and needs to be exterminated.

[Don Joe]

Read Pournelle's "Fallen Angels". He and his publisher have put it online for free. You can read it on their website, or, download it in a variety of formats.

http://www.baen.com/library/jpournelle.htm