Eco-Extremist Wants World Population to Drop below 1 Billion [BIG TIME BARF ALERT]

Business and Media Institute ^ | 5/6/07 | Dan Gainor

[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.”

[Ancesthntr]

All of you who want this guy to off himself first, to lead by example, are missing the point...someone’s got to supervise the whole thing, and since he’s suggesting the idea he obviously thinks that it should be him and those like him. So just get in line for your Koolaid. /sarc

[massgopguy]

“stop burdening the Earth with your existence.” - Anthem, Ayn Rand. Most of the eco-web site have suggested an even lower Global Human Population. Some as low as 80 million. How ya gonna make that omelet?

[Red Badger]

How very malthusian.......

[elizabetty]

A Billion less Muslims and or Socialists would certainly make the world a better place.

[AliVeritas]

It’s a part of eugenics. When you have time, dig into the UN Population Fund.

[E Rocc]

If he wants to "reduce" human population, perhaps he should start by setting a "good example".

Of course, these nutbars all take the "John Brightling" viewpoint....everyone but them.

-Eric

[BenLurkin]

“We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion.”

I have two words for this guy: "Rainbow Six".

[freekitty]

Yeah, “You first”.

[dfwgator]

Lead the way, Paul.

[MotleyGirl70]

Lets start the reductions with this charlatan, shall we?

Sounds good to me. I bet he's pals with Algore.

[wastedyears]

This harkens back to reading Clancy’s Rainbow Six.

Eco-terrorists wanted to put deadly viruses into the air conditioning system at the Sydney Olympics, then people would go home and spread it all around.

I say we take this guy out.

[Dmitry Vukicevich]

of course him and his friends are exempt from the purging.

[GOP_1900AD]

People sometimes think I am a conspiracy theorist when I mention this 1 billion number. When in fact, nut balls all the way back to at least the Brower-Ehrlich-Lovins crowd have long touted such a figure as “ideal.” That is the agenda driving global warming hysteria and other ills.

[massgopguy]

He reminds me of the protagonists in Rainbow Six. In the end they are left to enjoy their harmony with nature. Naked and alone in the jungle. Look at all them purty snakes and toads encroaching.

[Ronaldus Magnus Reagan]

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

The Khymer Rouge would have loved him. Do we kill all the intellectuals as well, or will that be his next policy?

[GOP_1900AD]

Got Helium 3? Got lunar mining? That will be the next big thing the eco freaks will freak out about.

[wastedyears]

You beat me by a minute.

[JamesP81]

Most of the planet is quite empty

Somebody once told me that one half of Texas had enough land area to put every person on Earth in a modest house if the houses were built close together like they are in suburbia. No multi-story structures required. Really puts some perspective on things.

[pissant]

My guess is he huffs Algores discarded BVDs.