To: Wilhelm Tell
I knew it. The "environmentalists" are against taking a dead or virtually dead planet like Mars and restoring it to life. If no microbes are found on Mars, the environmental extremists will argue that man ought not harm the "purity" of the lifeless dirt. What animates the environmental extremists is a hatred of mankind.
The novel
Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robin predicts exactly what you describe. Terrorist environmentalists killing settlers in order to save the "purity of red sand".
9 posted on
03/31/2004 5:25:58 AM PST by
samtheman
To: samtheman
Funny thing is, KSR is a bigtime socialist, and his stories portrayed two groups of commies going at each other: the pro-terraformers vs the anti-terraformers.
18 posted on
03/31/2004 6:45:55 AM PST by
fishtank
To: samtheman
The novel Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson predicts exactly what you describe. Terrorist environmentalists killing settlers in order to save the "purity of red sand".That's the same thing I thought. I thought the Martian Reds in the series were a pack of flaming nut-cases, just like our Greenies.
20 posted on
03/31/2004 7:24:43 AM PST by
FierceDraka
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