In honor of Lenin’s Birthday/Earth Day:
“When it is broken down, the philosophy of environmentalism is the philosophy of life on earth without humanity at all. Green becomes the color of a forest that grows over unmarked graves.”
(HT: OpenMarket.org via IMAO)
Read the full article at OpenMarket.
This bit is pretty indicative of the warped nature of the modern – should I say postmodern? – environmental movement.
When environmentalists see a beautiful beach, a forest, or a desert, they don’t see environments for humans to live in, they see a world that has value and rights regardless of how humans can use it. When they see a tiger in the jungle or a deer in a forest they don’t see a life threatening danger or a potential source of food, they see citizens of the world who should be left alone; they see a world that has value regardless of whether or not people exist.
Really, what environmentalists usually think of when they look on the world is how humanity has sullied its pristine beauty. And they invented earth day to remind us all of what a blight we are on the planet. Don’t be fooled by their use of words like “balance” and “living in harmony”. In nature balance is the constant struggle between life and death, creation and destruction. Animals eat and kill, fires burn, waters flood; that is the nature of things. What environmentalists want humanity to do is give up the struggle, to die, and to leave the earth in peace. They won’t even extend the same courtesy they give to animals like wolves that eat other animals or beavers that cut down trees to build dams.
