The winner of the Post Mortem Outstanding Achievement of the Decade Award is: the great ape (or whatever animal immediately precedes humans on the evolutionary path). The apes win because they haven’t destroyed the planet. The apes win because they don’t spend huge amounts of money trying to find newer, nastier ways of killing each other. The apes win because they don’t spend insane amounts of money on nuclear weapons, instead of giving it to very poor apes. The apes win because half of their population isn’t obese, while the other starves to death. The apes win because half of their population doesn’t suffer from floods, while the other half has barely any water. The apes win because they don’t spend more money on entertainment than they do on drugs that might alleviate the suffering of fellow apes. The apes win because they don’t fly planes into buildings full of other apes. The apes win because they don’t invade other ape nations on the most spurious of grounds. The apes win because they aren’t constantly waging war on other ape nations over ape land, ape oil or ape religion. The apes win because they don’t form organised religions in which children are sexually abused by members of the religion while other senior members don..."
Go to the site to read the rest if you want. Puts this report, which I've not seen anywhere else, in context. (The apes win because they don't suffer from floods? Huh?)
This is from their "About Us" page:
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This doesn't appear to be a fringe publication.