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!
Not a bad quote; that's my consoling theory, also. ;^)
The words and deeds of these eco-gestapo become very clear and rather predicable when one bears in mind that they not so much love nature as they hate people.
Yep. I've referred to 'em more than once as Malthusian driven misanthropic megalomaniacs. The term doesn't exactly roll off the tongue, but it needs very much to be thrust in their faces because it's a far cry from how they view themselves.
Their idea of America is everyone crammed into cities and only allowed to drive between places with a pass.
You know. Everybody that thinks they're so special, they deserve a pass on the stuff that affects the hoi polloi.
Well, at least they are consistent. They are as ignorant today as they were ten years ago.
Unmanned killing machines on land, sea and in the air are our future if we continue on the present course. They will likely not even be under direct human control. We are creating our own extinction, God Help Us.
"We in the Green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which the killing of a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels."
Carl Amery, German Green Party
You know, that has all the makings of a great sci-fi movie. Now if we can just get some brave conservative film maker to do it. Mel Gibson or Arnold perhaps?
I could lose 'em just as fast with a forty pound anchor and a couple hundred feet of ocean.
A FBI agent said, while addressing a National Animal Interest Alliance ("NAIA") meeting, that the FBI has a "profile" on the animal rights wackos. Some things on the list were: highly educated, usually homosexual, vegetarian, embrace eastern religions, frequently have dyed blonde hair and will do criminal acts to fulfill their purposes.
Animal rights wackos ("AR's") have hijacked the humane movement and prey like vultures on the people who really love animals by placing ads and gathering money from them to further the AR agenda. They believe that all animals should be free from emprisonment, even your cat and dog. They would let your child die rather than benefit from humane animal research, 96% of which is done on RATS, not cute puppies.
National Animal Interest Alliance
It's Luciferian occultism:
Gaia: The re-ordering of the world - Part I
Sustainable development explained: Joan Veon explains evolution of U.N. global control push - Part II
Churches deceived by green extremists: Henry Lamb describes world religion called 'Gaia'
AL GORE, THE UNITED NATIONS, AND THE CULT OF GAIA (treaties, UN mysticism, Gore's book)
What is offensive about this? There's nothing offensive about this. It is about stewardship and responsibility. Teddy Roosevelt was of the same mind, for pete's sake. Have you been listening to too much talk radio?
And what about this one? It's not saying that we cannot harvest. It's only pointing out that the sustainability paradigm might now be tilted in a way that is not in anyone's best interest ultimately. I'm sorry, but it seems to me that you are being paranoid rather than practical. You later cite Jacques Cousteau as some kind of enemy?!! Give me a break!! He is one of the most accomplished and famous marine biologists the modern world has ever known! You are getting very paranoid. What is the website you linked--I accessed it and could not determine what it was about; farmers and ranchers in Colorado, where I live, are generally not this paranoid...
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