"We don't have the professor's name.
Well, here's a start at filling in the blanks:
The speech Mims heard was delivered by Eric R. Pianka, "
That you...I feel appropriately foolish now.
Oops, I didn't mean to sound snippy (but I can see how my post could have).
If I did sound a bit negative on Pianka this early on, it's because
he sounds about like a fair number of enviro-extremists I've met in
academia (and Southern Caliornia).
When you really disect their philosophy, it appears their real objective is to
get "all the other people out of the way" so they and their anointed clique
can revel in "their Mother Earth".
About the only folks external to their clique they can stand are
"the little people" to take care of all the manual labor.
That's why the Sierra Club just couldn't bring themselves to come down
hard on illegal immigration.
They'll tolerate a bit of environmental degradation, just to have cheap
babysitters, housekeepers, gardeners and pool-cleaners.