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"I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds." Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace (quoted in Access to Energy, vol. 10, no. 4, Dec. 1982)

Back in the late 60's there was a woman (in her early 60's) in our church who was all ga-ga about preservation/conservation/animals. She wanted everyone to call her Aunt Frannie. She "loved" birds and squirrels, etc., etc.. She told us that she saw some elementary school age boy shooting a BB gun at her precious birds so she hired a high school boy to beat him up. She was as big a nut case as any other of these man-is-evil environmentalists. If man is a problem, then perhaps they can do their part to save the planet by committing mass suicide. I think that would be quite a good message to send to the rest of humanity and give us something to ponder deeply about.

"I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds." Paul Watson, founder of Greenpeace (quoted in Access to Energy, vol. 10, no. 4, Dec. 1982) Back in the late 60's there was a woman (in her early 60's) in our church who was all ga-ga about preservation/conservation/animals. She wanted everyone to call her Aunt Frannie. She "loved" birds and squirrels, etc., etc.. She told us that she saw some elementary school age boy shooting a BB gun at her precious birds so she hired a high school boy to beat him up. She was as big a nut case as any other of these man-is-evil environmentalists. If man is a problem, then perhaps they can do their part to save the planet by committing mass suicide. I think that would be quite a good message to send to the rest of humanity and give us something to ponder deeply about.

"...Man's power over nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."

C.S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man