Posted by
Glenn Flowers on Saturday, August 09, 2008 9:09:05 AM
Ask almost anyone from any background if there is any value to human life and they will think it is a trick question. Press them for an honest answer and you will get something akin to, "Of course human life is valuable," or "Human life is the most valuable thing on Earth,". I believe that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth are of the same belief. There are, of course, those fringe elements in the world, who hold human life as less than the most valuable, while some see it as the least most precious. The current manifestation of radical Islam, Hitler’s Nazis and their final solution, and crazed, sociopathic murderers all see no value to some portion of humanity. But in our world today is a minority group of well educated, highly dedicated people who, in their beliefs and actions, are more dangerous to the existance of humanity than all these other groups combined. This group is the hard core environmentalists. The environmental purists believe that nature, in its most virgin form, is the only thing of value in existence. They see man not as a part of nature, but as a cancerous disease and destroyer of Earth and its non-human occupants. Their core values are such that, unlike Hitler whose murderous crimes targeted the Jews and gypsies of the world, and unlike Islam who see infidels as deserving to die, these environment/nature worshippers seek nothing less than the total eradication of all humankind as the ultimate goal and they are hard at work in everyway they can conceive to see that goal achieved.
Some may say that I am exagerating in my conclusions and that environmentalists just want to reduce pollution and global climate change to insure we don’t ruin our home planet. To those I submit the following, quoted statements…
"Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet. I know social scientists who remind me that people are part of nature, but it isn’t true. Somewhere along the line – about a billion years ago, or half of that – we quit the contract and became a cancer. We are a plague upon ourselves and upon Earth.
It is cosmically unlikely that the developed world will choose to end its orgy of fossil energy consumption, and the Third World its suicidal consumption of landscape. Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along." ---David M. Graber, biologist with the National Park Service, reviewing The End of Nature by Bill McKibben for the Los Angeles Times Book Review, October 22, 1989.
"Phasing out of the human race will solve every problem on Earth, social and environmental." ---Dave Foreman, founder of Earth First
More like these can be found at … http://www.pushback.com/environment/ecofreakquotes.html
It is the belief in nature, not mankind, as the supremely valuable entity which makes these people dangerous. And it is these people who, under the guise of higher education and expertise, have made the environmental movement the political and social beheamoth it has become. They are responsible for the creation of the EPA, the animal rights movement, the global warming/climate change farce, the push to find alternative sources of energy, and the majority of reasons for the decline and hatred of western civilization in the world. One of the ways they seek to dominate and control mankind is through collectivism, destroying the rights of individuals and making all humankind reponsible for everything detrimental to nature, even if the harm is imagined or fabricated. Collectivivsm is the core for ideologies such as Marxism, the Nazis, and radical Islam. Only humankind as a whole is worthy of life. Individuals are there only for the benefit of all humanity. Any advance or progress by a group of individuals is wrong if the whole of humanity is not included in the benefits of that advancement. If the hardcore environmentalists had their way, which is the case most times today, mankind would de-evolve back to its fundamental, non-technical beginnings and would exist as cave dwelling, hunter gatherers who are at the mercy of their environment.
What they don’t want to admit is that the ability to adapt, humans being the ultimate success stories at adaptation, is built into even the first humans and has naturally evolved into what we are today. It is no more or less natural than the rise of mammals after the jurassic, the survival of the shark and alligator, and the multiple instances of mass extinction of myriads of species by nature itself. Man is naturally inquisitive and that leads to him seeking a better and easier way of life. It is called human nature, and there is no evil in its ideals.
The environmental movement is at the core of the majority of modern man’s social and economic ailments. Their methods are subtle and constitute social terrorism. Only the total annihilation of the environmental movement will insure man’s progress in social, economic, humanitarian, and technological endeavors. We don’t require the guidance of radicals to teach us that we need to do our best at what we attempt. Mankind already has that sense of self-preservation built in and will follow it if allowed the individual liberty to do so.
Glenn Flowers