The green movement is profoundly anti-human and hypocritical.
Michael, this is made crystal clear by an abundance of cruel and hateful (not to mention batshit crazy) statements from environmental leaders and high-profile supporters in politics, academia and the media. The roots of my own skepticism regarding CAGW go back to them, as well as to hysterical pronouncements about overpopulation from groups such as the Club of Rome and authors like Paul Ehrlich. Here are some examples of what I'm talking about:
“Even though it is quite true that any radical eugenic policy will be for many years politically and psychologically impossible, it will be important for UNESCO to see that the eugenic problem is examined with the greatest care, and that the public mind is informed of the issues at stake so that much that now is unthinkable may at least become thinkable.”
-- Julian Huxley, first director general of UNESCO, 1947
"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per day. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars... War... has hitherto been disappointing in this respect... but perhaps bacteriological war may prove more effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full... The state of affairs might be somewhat unpleasant, but what of it? Really high-minded people are mostly indifferent to happiness, especially other people's happiness"
-- Bertrand Russell, in his book, The Impact of Science on Society, 1953
"The world has cancer, and that cancer is man."
-- Merton Lambert, former spokesman for the Rockefeller Foundation, quoted from Harpath Journal, 1962
"A cancer is an uncontrolled multiplication of cells; the population explosion is an uncontrolled multiplication of people. ... We must shift our efforts from the treatment of the symptoms to the cutting out of the cancer. The operation will demand many apparently brutal and heartless decisions"
-- Stanford Professor Paul Ehrlich in The Population Bomb, 1968
“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, a founder of ‘Greenpeace,’ as quoted in Access to Energy, 1982
"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, founding member of the German Green Party, quoted in Mensch & Energie, April 1983
“If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS.”
-- Miss Ann Thropy, anonymous member of the radical group Earth First!, 1986
"In the event that I am reincarnated, I would like to return as a deadly virus, in order to contribute something to solve overpopulation.”
-- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, first president of the World Wildlife Fund – as reported by Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA), August, 1988
“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, December 28, 1988
“Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planet. We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth….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 Graber, ecologist, National Park Service, in a 1989 LA Times book review
“This is a terrible thing to say. In order to stabilize world population, it is necessary to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it’s just as bad not to say it.”
-- Oceanographer Jacques Cousteau, as quoted in UNESCO Courier, November 1991
“A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.”
-- Ted Turner, media mogul, as quoted in Audubon, November-December 1991
“You think Hiroshima was bad, let me tell you, mister, Hiroshima wasn’t bad enough!”
-- Faye Dunaway as the voice of “Mother Earth/Gaia” in the 1991 WTBS series “Voice of the Planet”
"I would be overjoyed when the first scientist is killed by a liberation activist."
--Vivien Smith, Former Animal Liberation spokesperson, USA Today, September 3, 1991
“We have no problem in principle with the humans reducing their numbers by killing one another. It’s an excellent way of making the humans extinct.”
-- Geophilus, “spokesorganism” of the Gaia Liberation Front, as quoted by Les U. Knight of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (These Exit Times, 1992)
"To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem."
-- Lamont Cole, ecologist at Cornell University, as reported by Elizabeth Whelan in her book, Toxic Terror, 1993
"Cannibalism is a radical but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.”
-- Lyall Watson, anthropologist and commissioner for the The International Whaling Commission, as quoted in The Financial Times, 15 July 1995
"...every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned."
-- George Monbiot, from a column in the Guardian, Monday 4 December 2006
Some undated statements:
"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, Whole Earth Catalogue
“I suspect that eradicating small pox 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
“Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.”
-- David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
“My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it’s full complement of species, returning throughout the world.”
-- David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
“We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.”
-- David Foreman, co-founder of Earth First!
"There are too many people and [banning DDT] is as good a way to get rid of them as any."
--Charles Wuster, chief scientist and co-founder of the Environmental Defense Fund
Finally, lest people believe that fantasies of plague, starvation and murder are a thing of the past on the part of green groups, there's this thoroughly detestable video put out by 1010global.org on October 1, 2010:
Doug