The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.
--Kenneth Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)
We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion--guilt-free at last!
--Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue).
Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.... Capitalism is destroying the earth.
--Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects.... We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.
--David Foreman, Earth First!
Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.
--Pentti Linkola
If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.
--Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth-Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.
--John Shuttleworth
What we've got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.
--Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)
I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.
--John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs.
--John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing....This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.
--Economist editorial
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
--David Foreman, Earth First!
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
--Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!
If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS
--Earth First! Newsletter
Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby.
--Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists
To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.
--Lamont Cole
The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don't suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them.
--Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population.
--Reid Bryson, "Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man", (1971)
The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer.
--Paul Ehrlich, in The Population Bomb (1968)
I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000.
--Paul Ehrlich in (1969)
In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish.
--Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)
Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity...in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion.
--Paul Ehrlich in (1976)
This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.
--Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976
There are ominous signs that the earth's weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production--with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon... The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it.
--Newsweek, April 28, (1975)
This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.
--Lowell Ponte in "The Cooling", 1976
If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. ... This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.
--Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)
But it's SUVs that cause global warming. Just ignore the warming on other planets - it's all a plot by Exxon-paid scientists.
Please.. allow me to be the first...
ahem....
IT’S BUSH FAULT
This trend is being amplified by gases from fossil fuel burning, they argue.
Well, they only say that because they are fools.
OK everybody. Get rid of those SUV’s and buy a hybrid to get rid of those sunspots!
Argue? More like emphatically state with assurance. But how can they be so absolutely sure when, just a few years ago the argument was for global cooling?...........
What a hoot. If you increase the temp on an electric burner under a pot of water, the temp of the water does not instananeously increase and then stabilize. It takes awhile for the water to reach a new equilibrium.
It's telling that the scientific mainsteam has to discard simple notions of thermodynamics to cling to their human-caused global warming religion.
This is insane.
If you look at a graphic of the sun with the earth next to it
for comparison.....
This planet is smaller than a gnats ass !!!
But it’s our fault.....
Here's the funny part. When massive power outages occur, more babies are born nine months later than would be otherwise. This is a documented phenomenon the world over. No power = more babies (ie nothing better to do with the darkness).
So really, she's 180 deg out of phase. It's the turning OFF of the lights that makes babies.
“and that mankind is amplifying the sun’s latest attempt at warming the earth.”
they will never, never, never give up the attempt to wrest absolute power. (what a bunch of flaming, %^&%$#, scu&bag, psychotic, revolution-fomenting swine.)
interesting
Global Warming! Bush’s Fault! Damn Republicans!
That’s a great collection of quotes!
When the next mini-ice age hits, we will wish for these warm days. Food production will drop considerably.
The good scientist might do well to go back and study the definition of "amplify". An amplifier multiplies. The scientist is talking about mankind "biasing", or adding to the sun's warming effect.
It is our fault
I think I get it now. If global warming doesnt kill you then you will freeze to death in the global warming ice age because you wont be able to afford the Bush/Cheney/Halliburton oil prices.
You can't make a judgment on data from just two cycles. And the sunspot number is never constant...