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The only solution for climate change is letting the human race become extinct
cambridgeshire live ^ | 5 FEB 2020 | Alistair Ryder

Posted on 02/09/2020 9:24:14 PM PST by Mount Athos

A Cambridge academic has proposed a radical new way to solve climate change – letting humanity become extinct.

Patricia MacCormack, a professor of continental philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University, has just released her new book The Ahuman Manifesto, which will officially be launched in Cambridge today (Wednesday, February 5).

The book argues that due to the damage done to other living creatures on Earth, we should start gradually phasing out reproduction. But rather than offering a bleak look at the future of humanity, it has generated discussion due to its joyful and optimistic tone, as it sets out a positive view for the future of Earth - without mankind.

It also touches on several hot-button topics, from religion and veganism to the concept of identity politics, tying these into how the creation of a hierarchal world among humans has left us blind to the destruction we are causing to our habitat and other forms of life.

Speaking to CambridgeshireLive, Professor MacCormack outlined how she came to this point of view, and how these ideas are not as provocative as they may initially sound.

She said: “I arrived at this idea from a couple of directions. I was introduced to philosophy due to my interest in feminism and queer theory, so reproductive rights have long been an interest to me – this led me to learn more about animal rights, which is when I became vegan.

“The basic premise of the book is that we’re in the age of the Anthropocene, humanity has caused mass problems and one of them is creating this hierarchal world where white, male, heterosexual and able-bodied people are succeeding, and people of different races, genders, sexualities and those with disabilities are struggling to get that.

“This is where the idea of dismantling identity politics comes in – they deserve rights not because of what they are, but because they are.

“The book also argues that we need to dismantle religion, and other overriding powers like the church of capitalism or the cult of self, as it makes people act upon enforced rules rather than respond thoughtfully to the situations in front of them.”

The central argument in The Ahuman Manifesto can be boiled down to this: mankind is already enslaved to the point of “zombiedom” by capitalism, and because of the damage this has caused, phasing out reproduction is the only way to repair the damage done to the world.

Additionally, humanity has to see it isn’t the single living dominant force - but first, it needs to dismantle an established hierarchy amongst itself. This argument has not received as much disagreement as you might expect.

Professor MacCormack continued: “Everyone’s okay with the ideas in the book until they’re told they’d have to act on it. There is a lot of agreement that these changes might work for the world, but when it imposes on people, it becomes proactive.

“Many people are surprised it’s so joyful and it has this radical compassion, which cares for the world. It’s not about our death, so much as it’s about celebrating the tools that exist to care for a decelerating Earth.

“People wonder why I don’t think humans are exceptional, dominant beings – but when I ask them why they think that, I never get a good answer back. The way we perceive the world isn’t the only one, we never think about animal life.

“Even Extinction Rebellion only focus on the effect this will have on human life when climate change is something that will affect every living being on the planet.”


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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To: RightGeek

I IMPLORE YOU!!
Let's do the Time Warp again!!!
(It's just a jump to the LEFT...)

41 posted on 02/09/2020 10:06:26 PM PST by freedumb2003 ("DonÂ’t mistake activity for achievement." - John Wooden)
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To: technically right
The real question is why is she hired by a University?
While conservatives need not apply
42 posted on 02/09/2020 10:06:59 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: freedumb2003

Let the Left take their own advice and practice what they preach.

When they’re gone, sane and happy people will inherit the earth.


43 posted on 02/09/2020 10:10:03 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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To: Mount Athos

If one accepts the Left’s dogma and propaganda then elimination of the human race is the logical outcome. No surprise here. Most of the leftists will dodge the subject.


44 posted on 02/09/2020 10:13:45 PM PST by plain talk
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To: Mount Athos

“The only solution for climate change hysteria is letting the leftists become extinct”

/fixed it


45 posted on 02/09/2020 10:17:00 PM PST by BTerclinger (MAGA)
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To: Mount Athos
...which is when I became vegan.

In other words, she does not get enough nutrition to maintain a properly functioning brain, and it shows.

“This is where the idea of dismantling identity politics comes in – they deserve rights not because of what they are, but because they are.

Um, yeah. It is the left who puts people into ever smaller categories, acting on the "divide and conquer" principle. The culture that she hates is the culture that looks at people as people first, not as whatever their race/creed/gender etc. is.

This "academic" is NOT a scientist, nor do I think she would have any understanding of science theory. Does she have any clue that many of the proposals to stop "anthropogenic global warming" in actuality pose great danger to all life. Carbon dioxide is, very literally, the substance of life. Without CO2 in the air, plants dies. Without plants, everything else dies.

46 posted on 02/09/2020 10:18:31 PM PST by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org)
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To: Mount Athos

https://www.mediatheque.lindau-nobel.org/videos/34729/ivar-giaever-global-warming-revisited/meeting-2015


47 posted on 02/09/2020 10:22:24 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: freedumb2003

bttt!


48 posted on 02/09/2020 10:25:43 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: goldstategop

Well said.


49 posted on 02/09/2020 10:31:33 PM PST by Mr. N. Wolfe
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To: Mount Athos
mankind is already enslaved to the point of “zombiedom” by capitalism

Might as well stop reading there. This is a superannuated child trying to shock the grownups. The notion that humans do not care about animals flies contrary to tens of thousands of years of human activity - in fact, we do. They're delicious.

50 posted on 02/09/2020 10:32:11 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Mount Athos

Well, since liberals are the only ones dumb enough to believe in this stuff.....


51 posted on 02/09/2020 10:37:30 PM PST by Still Thinking (Freedom is NOT a loophole!)
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To: Still Thinking

I had some dude trying to feed me info on Geothermal energy with the end result that I would have no utility bill. But I would have to pay off the 20 year mortgage on the installation first. I’m 75.


52 posted on 02/09/2020 10:43:50 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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Fanatics


53 posted on 02/09/2020 10:44:09 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Mount Athos

The communists will say, and do, ANYTHING to get those trillions of dollars in fees, taxes, fines, etc. It had NOTHING to do with the climate and EVERYTHING to do with robbing the “unwashed masses” of trillions of dollars. They’re fricken’ insane....totally insane.


54 posted on 02/09/2020 10:55:07 PM PST by lgjhn23 (It's easy to be a liberal when one is dumber than a box of rocks...)
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To: Mount Athos

Mars has climate change. How does the learned professor suggest we address that?


55 posted on 02/09/2020 11:03:25 PM PST by Glennb51
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To: Mount Athos
The only solution for climate change is letting the human race become extinct

First this is nothing new. VHEM has been around for 30 years at least so this is plagiarism.

Next if she did not follow this statement by immediately jumping into a tiger pit then she is a hypocrite of the first order.

Lastly the climate has been changing since time began. We have had snowball earth and tropical earth and everything in between.

You could killed every last person on the planet and the climate would still do what ever the heck it pleased. That is because it is controlled by that big ball of flaming gas and I am not talking about Joe Biden.

56 posted on 02/09/2020 11:06:17 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (A hero is a hero no matter what medal they give him. Likewise a schmuck is still a schmuck.)
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To: Mount Athos
this led me to learn more about animal rights

false rights:

animal rights
rights of natural objects such as trees or the earth
rights to economic goods and services such as health care
rights of groups such as queers and freaks

57 posted on 02/09/2020 11:30:45 PM PST by mjp ((pro-{God, reality, reason, egoism, individualism, natural rights, limited government, capitalism}))
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To: AlaskaErik

A+++
You get bonus points!


58 posted on 02/09/2020 11:37:10 PM PST by Do the math (Do the math./y to)
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To: Mount Athos

So then kill yourselves and shut the hell up.


59 posted on 02/09/2020 11:44:19 PM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't point finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: Mount Athos

Those who tell us this should set an example. But they don’t.


60 posted on 02/10/2020 12:12:47 AM PST by Jemian (War Eagle!)
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