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!
Everything. - Do you ever read God's word? - Every word ever uttered by Murderer/Saboteur Ed Abbey is in total opposition to God's commandments.
"...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."
Is this how man would "subdue" the Earth, as God commanded?
To Greenland? Are we going to build a jogging path for wolves over the North Atlantic?
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilence."
No doubt, Mr. McGee.
I only know you through this forum, but from what I've read you are a good and admirable man. Best Wishes for your book and any other past, present or future endeavors.
Just today we gave a ride to a friend of a friend. He was complaining that the city was going to take away the sewer water from the golf course and they'd have a hard time watering it with the water they have. I said they should just buy some water right and drill a new well. And he said "but that would be depleting resources. First, I rolled my eyes, then I explained the whole situation to him. People are stupid, they hear these people talk and want to stop everone (except themselves) from doing anything.
They wouldn't let them cut timber or graze cattle and now the west is going to burn, the wildlife will be displaced and all that wood is going to be wasted.
Oh, no, no, no, compadre. They are the visionaries who must stay on and see to it that the task is done.
Jacques had the right idea, wrong country. Let's clear out France and load it up with moose.
Cheery thoughts.
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