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)
The higher the solar activity, the more cosmic rays get blown away from the solar system. The less cosmic rays, the less clouds formed to reflect solar radiation and the warmer things get. The warmer things get the more CO2.
Case closed.
From my study of the human existence during the past 58 years, I am convinced that the experiment has failed and that it would be a good time to clean the slate.
Perhaps we could give the dinosaurs another chance........
Imagine, a world without democrats and incompetent freaks that call themselves scientists. What a beautiful world it must have been.
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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
To whoever wrote this... "The World" isn't a "living thing." It cannot benefit in any way from any thing. "The World" is a bunch of rock and dirt. Much like what's in your head! This guy is unbelievably dense, again, much like "The World."
Mark
Great quotes! Thanks.
Dang, I need to get on 6 meters for some DX. BTW, I’m an amateur radio operator.
Great job of plumbing up the envirowhacko’s!!!
Great list of quotes.. thanks...
Same kooks, different tune.
Great quotes GW. Worth a bump.
I really think that sunspots are envious of carbon dioxide who has been getting all of that global warming attention lately and they just wanted to do something to make people notice them. Not to worry.Those pesky sunspots will all go away in a few years, at least most of them, and then we can get back to worrying about CO2 again.
“In particular, it has been noted that between about 1645 and 1715, few sunspots were seen on the Sun’s surface.”
Is it possible that in the 1600’s things were not extremely accurate? Come to think about it, it is possible that things in 2007 are not extremely accurate? Maybe all this is what’s called “nature.”
Damn Republicans