Frightening Quotes from Environmentalists (Pushback.com)

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"The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state."

—Kenneth Boulding, originator of the “Spaceship Earth”
concept (as quoted by William Tucker in Progress and Privilege, 1982)

"We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!"

—Stewart Brand (writing in the Whole Earth Catalogue).

"Free Enterprise really means rich people get richer. They have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process…. Capitalism is destroying the earth."

—Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects…. We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land."

—David Foreman, Earth First!

"Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed."

—Pentti Linkola

"If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won’t give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other."

—Amory Lovins in The Mother Earth–Plowboy Interview, Nov/Dec 1977, p.22

"The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world."

—John Shuttleworth

"What we’ve got to do in energy conservation is try to ride the global warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, to have approached global warming as if it is real means energy conservation, so we will be doing the right thing anyway in terms of economic policy and environmental policy."

—Timothy Wirth, former U.S. Senator (D-Colorado)

"I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."

—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs."

—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

"The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing….This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run."

—Economist editorial

"We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight."

—David Foreman, Earth First!

"Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental."

—Dave Forman, Founder of Earth First!

"If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS."

—Earth First! Newsletter

"Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along."

—David Graber, biologist, National Park Service

"The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans."

—Dr. Reed F. Noss, The Wildlands Project

"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."

—Prince Phillip, World Wildlife Fund

"Cannibalism is a “radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.”

—Lyall Watson, The Financial Times, 15 July 1995

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"We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels".

—Carl Amery

"Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby."

—Helen Caldicott, Union of Concerned Scientists

"To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem".

—Lamont Cole

"If there is going to be electricity, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered."

—Gar Smith, editor of the Earth Island Institute’s online magazine The Edge

"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can’t let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don’t suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them."

—Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund

"The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population."

—Reid Bryson, “Global Ecology; Readings towards a rational strategy for Man”, (1971)

"The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s, the world will undergo famines. Hundreds of millions of people are going to starve to death in spite of any crash programs embarked upon now. Population control is the only answer."

—Paul Ehrlich, in The Population Bomb (1968)

"I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000."

—Paul Ehrlich in 1969

"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish."

—Paul Ehrlich, Earth Day (1970)

"Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity…in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion."

—Paul Ehrlich in (1976)

"This [cooling] trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century."

—Peter Gwynne, Newsweek 1976

"There are ominous signs that the earth’s weather patterns have begun to change dramatically and that these changes may portend a drastic decline in food production—with serious political implications for just about every nation on earth. The drop in food production could begin quite soon… The evidence in support of these predictions has now begun to accumulate so massively that meteorologist are hard-pressed to keep up with it."

—Newsweek, April 28, (1975)

"This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000."

—Lowell Ponte in “The Cooling”, 1976

"If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. … This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age."

—Kenneth E.F. Watt on air pollution and global cooling, Earth Day (1970)

"If there is going to be electricity, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered."

—Gar Smith, editor of the Earth Island Institute’s online magazine The Edge

"Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs."

—John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal

Oh my hypothetical-God! Solar power?! That is so horribly frightening!


You will have to explain me how this is either frightening or untrue. Why have humans more value than slugs?

Even though there are statements that have failed to happen or with which I disagree, there is nothing truly "frightening" there. I have seen many people try to make greens look like dangerous terrorist by use of a biased selection of quotes arranged in a misleading way. You, sir, have failed.

This is actually old news for me, I'm just glad there are some people here FINALLY waking up.

this sounds like the ramblings of the Primitivist movement or the Unabomber.

First off, it's "ma'am"

I personally don't find Solar Power scary, I actually think it'd be quite neat. However, what the person who said that seems to be suggesting, at least from my understanding, is that it should only be limited to small groups of people. Do you, in all honesty, have any idea what the effects of that would be?

Secondly, I fail to see how there is nothing frightening about someone stating outright that, according to him/her, we are, in essence, worthless. We have more value than slugs for many reasons, one of them being that we can think for ourselves and are capable of many more things than a slug, or really any other animal, is capable of. Could an ant have written the Bible or any other book? Could a hawk have invented the telephone? What are the chances of a fish having written the Declaration of Independence or U.S Constitution? Did a lemur begin the Abolitionist Movement or the Feminist Movement, or was that the work of *gasp* humans?

It was essentially the "humans are worthless" philosophy, or at least a branch of it, that led to the atrocity that was the Holocaust. Twelve million people died because of that sh**! Some were burned alive in ovens, not to mention purposefully gassed and experimented on, for the love of Paul!

Finally, I never said Environmentalists were terrorists, I was simply showing why I did not support the movement and in fact abhor it. Maybe you should read a few more of the quotes I bolded in the initial post, it is enough to make anyone with even the smallest amount of human decency close to nauseous.

The fringe of the environmental movement are right at home amongst the likes of Pol Pot. I suspect most are attracted to the movement just as justification for their sociopathic views.

"If there is going to be electricity, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered."



First off, it's "ma'am", and I personally don't find Solar Power scary, I actually think it'd be quite neat. However, what the person who said that seems to be suggesting, at least from my understanding, is that it should only be limited to small groups of people. Do you, in all honesty, have any idea what the effects of that would be?

It is the dark underbelly of the environmentalist mindset. Scratch an environmentalist and you will find someone who hates the human race and wants it gone.

ruveyn

This attitude that humans are a disease to be wiped out, is not something that is unique to environmentalists, extreme or otherwise.

I've seen this sort of thing come from right wing metaphysicists with fascist tendencies. Very dangerous and unhinged people.

There was one, I cannot remember his name but used the analogy of being in a lifeboat being swamped by drowning people to compare the current social climate-" For your own preservation, take an axe and sever their arms before they capsize the boat"