Posted on 04/14/2007 5:45:10 AM PDT by Leisler
Here are some outrageous and racist comments by environmentalists. These are compiled and documented in my book Eco-Freaks: Environmentalism Is Hazardous to Your Health.
John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club: Muir said American Indians are “mostly ugly, and some of them altogether hideous.” They “seemed to have no right place in the landscape,” he continued. Muir is still honored without qualification on the Sierra Club web site, which proclaims, “John Muir is as relevant today as he was over 100 years ago.”
Paul Ehrlich, influential “overpopulation” guru and professor of population studies at Stanford University: In his best-selling book, The Population Bomb, Ehrlich called for all men in India who had three or more children to be forcibly sterilized. He also scorned those who helped to feed the Third World’s hungry, blasting them as “the assorted do-gooders who are deeply involved in the apparatus of international food charity.”
Charles Wurster, co-founder and former chief scientist of Environmental Defense Fund (now Environmental Defense): When asked about human deaths that would result from the banning of DDT, due to exposure to more acutely toxic DDT subsitutes, Wurster allegedly said, “It doesn’t really make a lot of difference because the organophosphate acts locally and only kills farm workers, and most of them are Mexicans and Negroes.” Wurster was accused of saying this by EDF co-founder Victor Yannacone, and the accusation was reported at a Congressional hearing. Wurster denied making the statement, but Yannacone — a prominent environmental attorney — has never taken back his accusation against Wurster.
Alexander King, co-founder of the Club of Rome: In an essay in a book called The Discipline of Curiosity, King wrote that DDT’s main problem was that it worked too well at saving Third World lives. “In Guyana, within almost two years, it had almost eliminated malaria, but at the same time the birth rate had doubled. So my chief quarrel with DDT in hindsight is that it greatly added to the population problem.”
Jeff Hoffman, poster on popular environmental news site Grist.org: Arguing against efforts to resume DDT use to combat malaria in Africa, Hoffman explained, “Malaria was actually a natural population control, and DDT has caused a massive population explosion in some places where it has eradicated malaria.”
Don Imus has taken a lot of grief for his inappropriate remarks, but the media have yet to hold environmentalists like these individuals accountable for their pattern of vicious and bigoted comments. The worst part is that unlike Imus, the ill will of many environmentalists toward minorities and humans in general has been allowed to influence destructive public policy decisions, such as the DDT ban and the lack of flood protection for New Orleans.
It’s time that environmentalists be called on the carpet, like everyone else is, when they make these horrible remarks about disadvatanaged groups.
That UK Channel 4 documentary, I think, shows the correlation of the rise in radical environmentalism with the fall of the Berlin Wall and collapse of communism. All the crazies who hate the US/West and were sympathetic to the Commies joined the next "movement" and it just reinforces itself. Also take a look at the bio of a guy by the name of Maurice Strong (check wikipedia) -- he's really the guy behind all this, having worked the NGOs and the UN and the World Bank, etc. etc. to make a fortune off of these "movements" -- and he now has a leadership role (maybe CEO) of one of these carbon-offset companies that will benefit from all the eco guilt the stupid lefties in the US are displaying. It really is quite scary.
Michael Creighton also points out this correlation (fall of communism and the rise of extremist environmentalism) in his latest novel.
As for the Nazi's, a lot of crazies embraced that philosophy as well -- rationalizing that Hitler pulled Germany out of the depression faster than most countries... just another example of lefties seeking simple solutions through government power when the reality shows centralized government actions always fail in comparison with the free market.
Don’t forget Margaret Sanger...anti-Semitic...anti-black eugenic pusher who started PLANNED PARENTHOOD!!!
Do you Google FR to find all this good old stuff???
Don Imus has taken a lot of grief for his inappropriate remarks, but the media have yet to hold environmentalists like these individuals accountable for their pattern of vicious and bigoted comments.
One of her most famous quotes is:
“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble, 255 Adams Street, Milton, Massachusetts
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