Eco-Extremist Wants World Population to Drop below 1 Billion

[Crown_amps]

Eco-Extremist Wants World Population to Drop below 1 Billion

Sea Shepherd founder says mankind is a 'virus' and we need to 're-wild the planet.'

http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20070506180903.aspx

By Dan Gainor

The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow

Business & Media Institute

5/6/2007 7:41:33 PM

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.”

that guy is...FVCKED UP

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[NYR36 10+ year member]

We should have a smaller population to say the least.

 

[ballstothewall 10+ year member]

I have no problem with this on one condition. I get to pick who goes and who stays.

 

[Crown_amps]

you guys are f@#$ed in the head its called free will

if you want less people kill your family and then yourslef first

 

[Crown_amps]

you guys must have not read the entire thing since it means NO MORE CAR AUDIO

 

[the_noob 10+ year member]

He should start by killing himself first.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

you guys are f@#$ed in the head its called free will
if you want less people kill your family and then yourslef first

Well if we don't handle it nature will. It is sort of like the deer population. If left unchecked it will first grow beyond what the land can support -- and then disease and famine will take its toll -- perhaps to the point of extinction.

I could see us testing out compulsory poulation control in a nation of little consequence -- perhaps Canada.

 

[JonMR2turbo 10+ year member]

That's fine with me, there are alot of people who just take up space. We can start by getting rid of third world countries, communists, socialists, Canadians, the French, and the poor.

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

That's fine with me, there are alot of people who just take up space. We can start by getting rid of third world countries, communists, socialists, Canadians, the French, and the poor.

That would be ideal. Much better than letting disease and famine take out the good with the bad.

 

[Crown_amps]

Well if we don't handle it nature will. It is sort of like the deer population. If left unchecked it will first grow beyond what the land can support -- and then disease and famine will take its toll -- perhaps to the point of extinction.
I could see us testing out compulsory poulation control in a nation of little consequence -- perhaps Canada.

not at all i guess you just pulled that out of your *** along with the rest of your comments

Humans no not have a NATURAL predators we are the predator now that arugment would be valid if and only if there was a balance that we killed off like if t rex's ate us and we killed all them.

However you are very wrong about the population getting out of hand.....is there enough food to feed every person on earth 3 square meals a day.....hell ya is that happening...hells no http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1108

read both sides and come to your educated conclusion please not just telling me your opinion that is not a fact //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/*******.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

the un, and many many more things i dont argee with also put this out now just because i dont argee with their views doesnt mean i wont look at what they put out and compare it

The earth will not over populate but im sure you dont know about industrialized nations trends in population

 

[jmanpc 5,000+ posts]

Ted Turner, the owner of Turner Broadcasting, believes that the popoulation should be under 1/2 billion.

Okay Ted, you first.

 

[Crown_amps]

That's fine with me, there are alot of people who just take up space. We can start by getting rid of third world countries, communists, socialists, Canadians, the French, and the poor.

your a total nazi can you even think of what you just said....fine then i think all chicks with small tits should be sent into space....do you have any idea how broad and stupid that sounds get a grip you eugenics freak

That would be ideal. Much better than letting disease and famine take out the good with the bad.

famine is not the prob is who gets the food is and disease well hell i would bet my bottom dollar you would give them all shots ''for their own good''

you guys have a twisted mindset if the founders of your nation heard it they would smack the shit out of you for being such cold hearted control freaks

 

[WhoSayWho? 5,000+ posts]

not at all i guess you just pulled that out of your *** along with the rest of your comments
Humans no not have a NATURAL predators we are the predator now that arugment would be valid if and only if there was a balance that we killed off like if t rex's ate us and we killed all them.

However you are very wrong about the population getting out of hand.....is there enough food to feed every person on earth 3 square meals a day.....hell ya is that happening...hells no http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn1108

read both sides and come to your educated conclusion please not just telling me your opinion that is not a fact //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/*******.gif.a649d21efc0d1fd4890a6428166586c1.gif//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

the un, and many many more things i dont argee with also put this out now just because i dont argee with their views doesnt mean i wont look at what they put out and compare it

The earth will not over populate but im sure you dont know about industrialized nations trends in population

I truly hope that your parents did not have any more children. I don't know whether it is gentic or your parents just **** at rearing kids, but you are worthless EMO POS.

(I felt like I needed to throw that in since you are not comfortable having a discussion unless insults are thrown around).

If you had any sense at all you would know that everything that I said was true. Now you may have an issue with the morality of compulsory population control but that is a seperate issue.

But I have a feeling that one way or another you will not be a part of the problem of overpopulation. I can't imagine a female agreing to have *** with you plus it is just a matter of time before you off yourself.

 

[JonMR2turbo 10+ year member]

your a total nazi can you even think of what you just said....fine then i think all chicks with small tits should be sent into space....do you have any idea how broad and stupid that sounds get a grip you eugenics freak

Well I was joking, but since you took it seriously, tell me why any of those groups of people should continue living?

Third world countries do nothing but cause trouble for the rest of the world (Middle East), war with each other (Africa), breed organized crime (South America) oppress their people, and/or have a population where the majority is living in poverty.

Communists cause trouble with other countries as well as oppress their people.

Socialists mostly keep to themselves but their people are also mostly oppressed as well (but the sad part is the people don't realize it).

The Canadians and French, well, nobody would miss them.

While we are at it we can throw in Australia because they don't really do anything either.

 

[SethPhillips 5,000+ posts]

i dont care just as long as dumb people stop comeing into this world.....

and people that steal, kill ect...