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Environmentalism: Finding the Missing Valuer Submitted by wngreen on Sun, 2006-10-22 23:29.
New Scientist asks us to "Imagine Earth without People". All it takes is a read of the opening to get the gist of the article: Humans are undoubtedly the most dominant species the Earth has ever known. In just a few thousand years we have swallowed up more than a third of the planet's land for our cities, farmland and pastures. By some estimates, we now commandeer 40 per cent of all its productivity. And we're leaving quite a mess behind: ploughed-up prairies, razed forests, drained aquifers, nuclear waste, chemical pollution, invasive species, mass extinctions and now the looming spectre of climate change. If they could, the other species we share Earth with would surely vote us off the planet. What writer Bob Holmes subjects us to in the ensuing paragraphs is an environmentalist wacko's morbid fantasy of what 'mother earth' would experience without the burden of mankind. With everyone whisked away to re-education camps (since the corpses of resulting from just killing everyone would hurt 'mother earth') our planet would recover, improve and be just as Nature intended. This all begs the question, recover from what? Improve for whom? And why is Natures intent (whatever that means) a value? You see, an Earth with no people, no New York with its glorious skyline (light pollution my ass), no nuclear power plants with their life giving productive energy -- is of no value. Without an individual with the mind to make productive use of these things, they are just things -- useless things. This piece is just more evidence of the pure hatred for Man and His mind that is the driving force of the environmental movement. Wm
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May I change your quote just a mite?
"A Creator creates beauty in nature by her very presence and her contemplation of it. To a parasite nature is a cruel master. To a Creator, a soaring mountain range or lush green valley is capital, to be turned to her needs and pleasures be they scenic or productive. If Creator is hunted from the face of the Earth, beauty for humanity will cease to exist."
Humanity has for so long been upheld as the pinnacle of evolution for the potential realised in a very few of it's species that I wonder whether creators are the pinnacle of humanity or only a side-track - a freak streak from the masses of parasites it has produced ... and if the latter should disappear I'd say: good riddance to them - but lets continue this NEM fantasy to the point where only creators would survive (lets say ET takes the rest on a hitchhikers tour of the galaxy) ...
would the NEMs have the DNA repository required to survive as a species (of course genetics could fill in with cloning and genetic breeding of superior creators)? could they keep their creative purity intact over generations of breeding (or do we lack the morals to exterminate 'less worthy life')? or would the parasites creep back again at the first sign of slacking in their selective process (who's to become 'Big Brother' watching out for the NEMs)? would we be back with the breeders in no time at all (forget about hundreds of thousands of years)?
if NEMs can only survive with the specter of our current parasitic humanity as it's price I'd call for extermination of the whole species based on that dependancy alone - 'nature be damned' (irony of a nature-lover intended)
VSD
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ps: no flame-war intended of endless litanies against nature-freaks and man-haters - just give it a try and think what your wonderful NEM world might look like and if you could really tolerate a parasitic human species as it's root ... corrections welcome ...
Oh and the deceptiveness is
Oh and the deceptiveness:
* Arable land: 13.13%[8]
* Permanent crops: 4.71%[8]
* Permanent pastures: 26%
* Forests and woodland: 32%
* Urban areas: 1.5%
* Other: 30% (1993 est.)
Irrigated land: 2,481,250 km² (1993 est.)
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Beyond Revolting
I've done a lot of reading on environmentalism over the years. This is without doubt the most revolting piece I've read. The hatred for human beings displayed by the author is actually beyond revolting. If there were such a thing as a thought crime, this would be a prime instance.
Jeff
Exactly, William.
Exactly, William.
I wrote this a couple of years ago as part of an article for the Free Radical:
"And don't let the... environmentalists, tell you that nature has intrinsic beauty and that we must be subject to its exigencies and their Gothic visions. Man creates beauty in nature by his very presence and his contemplation of it. To an animal nature is a cruel master. To Man, a soaring mountain range or lush green valley is capital, to be turned to his needs be they scenic or productive. If Man is hunted from the face of the Earth, beauty will cease to exist."
Environmentalists are guilty of a fundamental contradiction: they seek to eradicate the valuer based upon the valuations of the valuer himself! In other words, suicide.