Posted on 06/14/2002 11:30:13 AM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
"We have got to share this planet with the other living creatures, and sharing means not merely preserving them in zoos or National Parks, but setting aside huge areas. Whole regions perhaps that will be free of human interference. Ideally, I would like to see certain large areas of the planet set off-limits to human entry of any kind, even aerial over flights."
-Edward Abbey-Deep Ecology for the 21st Century: The Natural Wonder: An Ecocentric World View. New Dimensions Radio, 1998.
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"The only hope of the Earth is to withdraw huge areas as inviolate natural sanctuaries from the depredations of modern industry and technology. Move out the people and cars. Reclaim the roads and the plowed lands."
-Dave Foreman, Confessions of an Eco-Warrior
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"At first glance, a vision of North America with regained wildness and biodiversity seems unrealistic, even utopian. But when we consider that restoration at this scale is a process requiring decades or even centuries, it begins to make sense."
-Noss and Cooperrider, 1994, "Saving Natures Legacy, Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity." Island Press, Washington, D.C.)
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"Does all the foregoing mean that Wild Earth and The Wildlands Project advocate the end of industrialized civilization? Most assuredly. Everything civilized must go..."
-John Davis, editor of Wild Earth magazine
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"The crucial paradigm shift the Deep Ecology movement envisions as necessary to protect the planet from ecological destruction involves the move from an anthropocentric to a spiritual/ecocentric value orientation...Humanity must drastically scale down its industrial activities on Earth, change its consumption lifestyles, stabilize and then reduce the size of the human population by humane means, and protect and restore wild ecosystems and the remaining wildlife on the planet."
-George Sessions, editorial advisor, Wild Earth magazine
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"Furthermore, most attempts to use sustainability as a management paradigm have been anthropocentric, biased toward commodity production, and seriously flawed from a biological standpoint."
-Wild Earth magazine
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"Our vision is simple: we live for the day when Grizzlies in Chihuahua have an unbroken connection to Grizzlies in Alaska; when Gray Wolf populations are continuous from New Mexico to Greenland; when vast unbroken forest and flowing plains again thrive ans support pre-Columbian populations of plants and animals; when humans dwell with respect, harmony, and affection for the land; when we come to live no longer as strangers and aliens to this continent."
-Wildlands Project vision statement
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Many ecologist (myself included) would just as soon see huge areas of land kept off limits to human activities of any kind."
-Noss, R. 1995. Maintaining Ecological Integrity in Representative Reserve Networks. World Wildlife Fund Canada Discussion Paper. p. 12.)
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One American burdens the earth much more than twenty Bangladeshis... This is a terrible thing to say. In order to stabilize world populations, we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it."
-Jacques Cousteau, UNESCO Courier, 1991
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"it is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class, involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, appliances, home and workplace air conditioning, and suburban housing, are not sustainable."
-Maurice Strong
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"I believe that human overpopulation is the fundamental problem on Earth Today" [and] "We humans have become a disease, the Humanpox."
-Dave Foreman, Sierra Club, co founder of Earth First!
Belial: "Every mammal on this planet instinctively develops a natural equilibrium with the surrounding environment, but you humans do not...."
Please take note that Belial lifted these lines sans attribution, of Agent Smith during his interrogation/torture of Morpheus, from the flawed but wildly popular movie The Matrix.
His plagiarism notwithstanding, Belial is correct, IMHO, in linking those lines to the thinking of the anti-human elites who've been fostering in our young the Godlessly ignorant, casuistical lemmings who we endearing call enviro-wackos.
Easy! Eco-friendly solar powered UAV robot drones will fly patrol missions, similar to our Predator UAVs over Afghanistan. Any unauthorized humans will be smoked.
-Ed Abbey
Really, Edward, and what makes you think that anyone gives a rat's patootie what you would like to see?
Make the ultimate honest gesture, if you believe that crap, and euthanize yourself...
very = from
who = whom
"King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer."
-Ed Abbey
Right on, John.
I suppose then, to consider you rational and sane, I must assume that your "magazine" is delivered on foot and is written in manuscript on...
Wait
"Who gives a f**k about New York when elephants are being killed...Animals need saving and that's important...This New York thing is being blown way out of proportion."--Lee Ryan, of the British pop band "Blue"
"For 35 million Chickens in the United States alone, every single night is a terrorist attack."--Karen Davis, United Poultry Concern
"Worldwide, everyday, 125 million innocent sentient animals are dreadfully abused and butchered for food. These tragedies are perpetrated by a worldwide animal agricultural terrorist network that is much more threatening to planetary survival than the Al-Queda network."--Alex Hershaft, National Charirman, Animal Rights
"Many and perhaps most of the nine billion animals sent to slaughter in the US each year, as well as billions killed abroad, have at least as long to sense doom as did the Sept. 11 victims. Neither are the animals' last cries as unlike the cell phone calls made by some of the Sept. 11 victims as the typical meat-eater would like to believe."--Anonymous editorial in Animal Magazine.
--Edward Abbey
Huh?
Er... uhh...
Those "predators" ain't "natural".
Killer drones will just see some warm blobs that fit the human parameters, check their GPS coordinates against a list of "approved" eco-nazi science researchers (and "party bosses" on approved holiday), and kill them with lasers.
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