The Beginning of the End for Life as We Know it on Planet Earth? (Mankind is a Virus)

Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ^ | May 4, 2007 | Paul Watson

[RobinOfKingston]

Do you ever get to the end of something like this and realize you just wasted the time spent reading it??? I knew what was coming, but I couldn’t stop in the middle.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

We need to lower populations of domestic housecats and dogs. Already the world’s housecats consume more fish than all the world’s seals

.we need to lower the population of environmental wackos

[onedoug]

Guillermo Gonzalez & Jay W Richards, The Privileged Planet: How Our Place In The Cosmos Is Designed For Discovery

[OldPossum]

In short, get out of your house and move your ass into some cave!

[goldstategop]

Liberals hate pets. They want to exterminate them too because we love our cats and dogs too selfishly.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[JZoback]

Thousands of species of insects are going extinct in the rainforests that have not even been discovered and classified.

It must be true, simply because it supports his wacko theory

[LibFreeOrDie]

"It’s a train that carries all the earth’s species as unwilling passengers with humans as the manically insane engineers unwilling to use the brake pedal."

So he's saying that evolution doesn't include humans? Humans are innately evil and have sinned (against Mother Earth)? And these guys have the nerve to complain about the anti-science "religious right". Their rabid hatred of humanity is disturbing.

[SunkenCiv]

It was chuckle-worthy, although it was written by Nazis.

[TheDon]

Curing a body of cancer requires radical and invasive therapy, and therefore, curing the biosphere of the human virus will also require a radical and invasive approach

Save the environment, kill an environmentalist.

[goldstategop]

The Left is consistent in its misanthropic state of mind. Nothing makes them happy about civilization.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[marsh_of_mists]

Paul Watson was one of the founders of Greenpeace in 1972. Since then, he was forced out of the organization because of his violent beliefs. The group he founded and leads to this day is the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS). This is a pirate organization that sails around the world, terrorizing fishermen...

Hmmm...

All commercial fishing should be abolished. If local communities need to fish the fish should be caught individually by hand.

Hmmmmmmmmmm.......

[Smokin' Joe]

Sorry, too much rowing hard with one oar in the water to RTFA.

The world is coming to an end, all our fault, we are all gonna dieeee!

If there is a rational, scientific case for postulating that humans are going to wipe out all the wee beasties and ourselves as well, I wish the author would just make it.

Humans have traditionally moved around when changes in climate, whatever the cause, occur. They go seeking better over the next hill, it is our way. We adapt or move. We will continue to adapt or move, and even fight over limited resources until and unless we have what we need.

If the writer is worried about the future of our species, maybe they can support space exploration and colonization so all our eggs aren't in one basket.

If something kills us all off, well, I guess I won't be here whining about it.

Okay, I went back and read the whole thing >Gaaaack!< Perhaps the writer can volunteer to eliminate themselves from the current 5-7 times the population sustainable in their dirt-worshiping grass-eating version. Maybe take a hike in the hills and feed a cougar or something.

[Smokin' Joe]

If they put the “THE END IS NEAR” board in back, they would at least be partly correct...

[JasonC]

The human extinction movement tries to go mainstream. Ayn Rand had these types pegged a generation ago - their pretended green concerns are pure and simply hatred of the human race.

[Dick Bachert]

At a meeting of early ecofreaks in — where else, Cahlifornia — a speaker declared to thunderous applause that “mankind is the ultimate disease of nature.”

These folks don’t believe man has a place in the ecosystem.

It’s Malthusian bulls**t but you need to know that more and more folks are buying it, thanks to the likes of Algore.

[Thumper1960]

Watson openly calls for mass genocide.

Isn't that the sort of publicity the Enviros need?

The message of the Left has always been so: 'We can do better than the capitalists and consumers. Death to the bourgeoisie. Death to the ruling class.'

In this case, Watson wants to slaughter the peasantry, too.

[ExtremeUnction]

The latest reports from the International Union for the Conservation of Nature’s Red List (IUCN) – a database measuring the global status of Earth's 1.5 million scientifically named species – states quite confidently that we will lose half of them by 2150. This is a cataclysmic prediction..

The answer is simply, man ate them. And if we need to we'll eat the other half. Tastes like chicken..

[Tamar1973]

Someone has been watching The Matrix too much.

Channelling Agent Smith!

[LegendHasIt]

Hmm... I thought Watson had a sudden attack of sanity a year or so ago and dropped his environwhacko ideas for a fairly sensible conservationist stance. Or was that some other guy?

"All consumption should be local. No food products need to be transported over hundreds of miles to market. All commercial fishing should be abolished. If local communities need to fish the fish should be caught individually by hand."

Come on, Peter, where is your commitment:
If you REALLY believed this crap you would not eat anything that you didn't grow or capture yourself, and only eat it raw, sun dried or cooked over a fire started by lightning. You would only lick the dew from the leaves or out of a river or stream for your water.

Tell you what, Peter: You do that for just the next six months, come back and tell us if you still believe it, and you might have the tiniest bit of credibility

[Reagan80]

...no WONDER the libs are on Bin Laden’s side! Now I finally get it - they admire his cave-dwelling small carbon footprint....!

Reagan80