Is Misanthropy Another Name for Environmental and Social Activists?

By Rich Kozlovich

We're constantly being told by the activists and their myrmidons in the media they're doing what they do for the good of humanity and are friends and allies of impoverished peoples and underdeveloped regions

Baloney!  They're they're friends as long as they can be "maintained as impoverished, disease-ridden museum exhibits."

Here are some quotes from big names of the environmental movement.

1. "Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape" (John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club);
2. "The world has a cancer, and the cancer is man" (Alan Gregg, Rockefeller Foundation);
3. "To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem" (Lamont Cole, Yale University);
4. "We've already had too much economic growth in the United States. Economic growth like ours is the disease, not the cure" (Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University);
5. "Isn't the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn't it our responsibility to bring that about?" (Maurice Strong, head of the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro and Executive Officer for Reform in the Office of the Secretary General of the United Nations) and let's not forget another 'greenhouse champion';
6. "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." (Michael Oppenheimer, Princeton University/Environmental Defense).
7. "Saying homo sapiens are a `plague species,' the London Zoo opened a new exhibit featuring--eight humans. We have set up this exhibit to highlight the spread of man as a plague species and to communicate the importance of man's place in the planet's ecosystem." (Human Beings: Plague Species; WorldNet Daily, 2005)
8. "Human beings, as a species, have no more value than slugs." (Earth First! Journal editor John Daily)
9. "To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem." (Yale professor Lamont Cole)
10. "Until such time as homo sapiens decide to rejoin nature, (we) can only hope for the right virus to come along." (David Graber, research biologist with the National Park Service)
11. Dave Foreman the founder of Earth First once stated "Ours is an ecological perspective that views Earth as a community and recognizes such apparent enemies as disease and pests not as manifestations of evil to be overcome but rather as vital and necessary components of a complex and vibrant biosphere."

In days gone by I published such a list and was told my presentation was a misrepresentation, and that all these quotes were merely hyperbole and not their real views.  Okay, but then why is it these types all support anti-GMO actions including Golden Rice that would save a half a million people from dying or going blind in South East Asia?  Whether it involved climate change, pesticides, agriculture, energy, or medicine every one one of their positions kill people, and in large numbers. That's not hyperbole, it's crimes against humanity, or at the very least depraved indifference. 

As you read this you had to have come to the rational conclusion these people are insane, and so is their movement.  Or did you?