You first, buddy!
Posted on 05/07/2007 9:28:40 AM PDT by MotleyGirl70
Apparently, saving the whales is more important than saving 5.5 billion people. Paul Watson, founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and famous for militant intervention to stop whalers, now warns mankind is “acting like a virus” and is harming Mother Earth.
Watson’s May 4 editorial asked the question “The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know it on Planet Earth?” Then he left no doubt about the answer. “We are killing our host the planet Earth,” he claimed and called for a population drop to less than 1 billion.
The commentary reminded readers that Watson had called humans a disease before and he wasn’t sorry. “I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the ‘AIDS of the Earth.’ I make no apologies for that statement,” the column continued.
Watson was invoking the worst of Robert Malthus, an English political economist who claimed that mankind was overpopulating the earth. That claimed first appeared in the late 1700s. Watson urged some solutions for mankind as part of a process to “need to re-wild the planet”:
· “No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness areas.” New York, London, Paris, Moscow are all too big. Then again, so are Moose Jaw, Timbuktu and even Annapolis, Md.
· “We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and where other species are free to evolve without human interference.”
· “We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.”
· “Sea transportation should be by sail. The big clippers were the finest ships ever built and sufficient to our needs. Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.”
· At least Watson was generous and said people could still talk with one another across great distances. “Communication systems can link the communities,” he proclaimed from on high.
The Watson rant kept on going calling for everything from cutting down on the population of domesticated dogs and cats to cutting down on everything else in what he called “simplify, simplify, simplify.”
Watson essentially called for humans to return to primitive lifestyles. “We need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine recreational vehicles. The Mennonites survive without cars and so can the rest of us.”
I’ve inderectly dealt with this maniac before. He is an overt terrorist — nothing more nothing less.
You first Paul. The departure of 3.5 billion people begins with you. Set the example.
Helium 3 is about at the right tech level for the Greenies to take an interest. They deserve each other.
ATTENTION, ATTENTION. ALL ENVIRONMENTALISTS REPORT TO THE DISINTEGRATION CHAMBERS. ALL ENVIRONMENTALISTS REPORT TO THE DISINTEGRATION CHAMBERS. THANK YOU.
This harkens back to reading Clancy’s Rainbow Six.Wow, the way people reference Clancy around here, you'd think his books did something like predict the use of jetliners as terrorist suicide weapons or something.....
-Eric (wondering if that really needed a sarcasm tag)
Wonder what kind of car he drives and when was the last time he flew or was on a boat?
Yes, but think of the benefits. Wider lanes! Swim the East River without any crowds!
You first, buddy!
Busybody who don’t have to live with the cost of their demand are happy to tell us what would be good for us.
As a pilot of almost 40 years, I can say that converting to blimps will reduce air travel to novelty sightseeing trips. Blimps are hard-pressed to make 120 knots, a speed that would make a NY - LA trip last several days. But blimps can’t do weather, they can’t do any weather at all. They can’t be brought near to the ground in any high wind and they absolutely cannot stand any freezing precipitation, like the kind that lingers for days at a time (sometime weeks) over the entire northeast US in the late fall and early winter.
Blimps, at least as historically configured, also cannot navigate fronts. On just about any day of the year a coast-to-coast flight, or even one covering a sufficient region, will have to transit at least one active front.
Do we think it will advance humanity to force everyone back on Amtrak? I don’t think so.
the entire population of the earth could live comfortably on a parcel the size of alaska. I did the math.
How much ya want to bet that he owns a car.
What's his suggestion? How about we all ride around on on one of these scooters. This seems like ideal transportation in Wisconsin winter.
This guy's a moron even moreso than Algore and I didn't think that would be possible.
This doofus thinks he is Agent Smith in, "The Matrix".
The Frankie character on Saturday Night Live said it best.
"Frankie: Shut up, gentlemen! The man needs a beatin'! He needs a good old-fashioned James Caan, "Godfather," garbage can involved monster beatin'!
[other panelists agree with shouts and grunts] "
Wasn’t this guy head of the IPCC at one time?
Fine. Let’s start with Mr. Watson.
BTW, Mr. B I like your FReeper family on your profile page /wink
How do you land a plane or chopper on one of them?
Too dangerous to risk letting him off himself (and “only” himself) and it sets a bad precident for sanctioned suicide. Give him a state sanctioned death sentence for his plot of global massacre.
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