Category: Eco-nonsense
Those of us who are a bit suspicious of environmentalism are not surprised that it is easy to come up with this collection of Frightening Quotes from Environmentalists. Amongst them:
"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
"Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.
-Pentti Linkola
"I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.
-John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal
“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
“To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem.
—Lamont Col
Go and read them and begin to understand the thinking of the extreme green movement. |