Posted on 06/20/2006 4:38:49 PM PDT by E-Mat
Most ecologists want to make life easy for butterflies and waterfalls. Who can argue with that? Some environmental extremists, however, think what Earth really needs is fewer people. In some cases, billions fewer.
“We’re no better than bacteria!” University of Texas biologist Eric Pianka recently announced. “Things are gonna get better after the collapse because we won’t be able to decimate the Earth so much,” he added. “And, I actually think the world will be much better when there’s only 10 or 20% of us left.”
Pianka dreamed that disease “will control the scourge of humanity.” He celebrated the potential of Ebola Reston, an airborne strain of the killer virus, to make Earth nearly human-free. “We’ve got airborne 90% mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that.”
Just five hours after Pianka’s March 3 speech to the Texas Academy of Science, which eyewitness Forrest Mims III covered March 31 in The Citizen Scientist, the Academy named Pianka its 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist. Several hundred scientists gave Pianka a standing ovation, Mimms reported.
Pianka is not alone.
In the April 17 Boston Globe, columnist Cathy Young quoted Texas Lutheran University’s Brenna McConnell who heard Pianka. “He’s a radical thinker, that one!” McConnell exclaimed. “I mean, he’s basically advocating for the death of all but 10% of the current population! And at the risk of sounding just as radical, I think he’s right.”
As U. Texas Arlington’s Rebecca Calisi observed April 4 on Infowars.com: “There is no denying the natural world would be a better place without people. ALL people!”
One wonders, among any 10 of Pianka’s, McConnell’s, or Calisi’s loved ones, which nine might they yield to “save the Earth?” And would these “radical thinkers” sacrifice themselves to protect our planet?
For his part, William Burger, Ph.D., decried “the devastation humans are currently imposing upon our planet.” The Curator Emeritus for botany at Chicago’s Field Museum of Science last November 9 wrote then-Discovery Institute scholar Jay Richards regarding his book, “The Privileged Planet.” Burger continued, “Still, adding over seventy million new humans to the planet each year, the future looks pretty bleak to me. Surely, the Black Death was one of the best things that ever happened to Europe: elevating the worth of human labor, reducing environmental degradation, and, rather promptly, producing the Renaissance. From where I sit, Planet Earth could use another major human pandemic, and pronto!”
What frightful words from a flower expert!
Finnish environmentalist Pentti Linkola calls humanity a sinking ship with 100 passengers and a lifeboat for 10. “Those who hate life try to pull more people on board and drown everybody. Those who love and respect life use axes to chop off the extra hands hanging on the gunwale.”
At an October 27 hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Jerry Vlasak of the North American Animal Liberation Front discussed his 2004 recommendations on how to reduce medical research on animals. “I don’t think you’d have to kill — assassinate — too many vivisectors before you would see a marked decrease in the amount of vivisection going on,” Vlasak said. “And I think for five lives, 10 lives, 15 human lives, we could save a million, 2 million, 10 million non-human lives.” Asked about this comment, Vlasak told the senators: “I made that statement. I stand by that statement.”
The green movement includes “Elves” — Earth Liberation Front radicals who firebomb houses under construction to prevent their supposed environmental harm (never mind that lumber smoke is a greenhouse gas). Likewise, the Animal Liberation Front’s fanatics have penetrated medical research facilities to free lab rats. If such eco-terrorism delays or blocks cures for deadly diseases, well, who needs all those humans anyway?
Beyond identifying and foiling Islamo-fascist murderers, U.S. law enforcement officials also should locate and defeat eco-terrorists who may try to use disease agents and other pathogens to animate this ideology of mass death. A few vials of mutated Ebola virus could be equally dangerous in the hands of both Muslim extremists and militant ecologists.
While the environmental movement features both sensible and misguided — though good-hearted — individuals, too many greens love butterflies and waterfalls best when those pesky humans are scrubbed from the landscape.
Mr. Murdock, a New York-based commentator, is a columnist with the Scripps Howard News Service and a senior fellow with the Atlas Economic Research Foundation in Fairfax, Va.
I believe they are really saying WESTERN people must die because the warlords of africa and the arab street seem to be killing themselves just fine for these environwackos' requirements .
I've heard on the local news channels that a campfire set by either transients or campers set the thing off sometime Sunday morning.
No clouds or lightning around this weekend so they're probably right.
ditto. These are our "logical", "rational", "sane" scientists who are advocating this. Undoubtedly all these academia nuts were born with high iqs and zero moral sense. Mass annihilation appears to the logical thought process of leftists. I guess Hitler, Stalin, and Mao were just ahead of their time. Maybe we should put up monuments to Genghis Khan too. (/sarcasm)
No doubt.
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