DE DEMENTES E IDIOTAS
In Spanish:
Breve Catálogo de Disparates Ecologistas
BREVE RECORDATORIO ECOTERRORISTA
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“We, in the green movement, aspire to a cultural model in which killing a forest will be considered more contemptible and more criminal than the sale of 6-year-old children to Asian brothels.” –Carl Amery, Writer
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“I think if we don't overthrow capitalism, we don't have a chance of saving the world ecologically. I think it is possible to have an ecologically sound society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under capitalism.” –Judi Bari, Earth First!
“A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect.” –Richard Benedict, Conservation Foundation
“The right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state.” -Kenneth Boulding, “Spaceship Earth Project”
“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley, with our localism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade religion—guilt-free at last!” –Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalogue
“Yet, most of the readily accessible reserves of oil formed over hundreds of millions of years will be consumed within a single generation, spanning the years from 1960 to 1995.” –Lester Brown, Founder of Worldwatch Institute
“All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors”. –David Brower, Director of Sierra Club
“Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.” -David Brower, Director of Sierra Club
“While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.” –David Brower, Director of Sierra Club
"Childbearing [should be] a punishable crime against society, unless the parents hold a government license.... All potential parents [should be] required to use contraceptive chemicals, the government issuing antidotes to citizens chosen for childbearing." –David Brower, Director of Sierra Club
“Loggers losing their jobs because of Spotted Owl legislation is, in my eyes, no different than people being out of work after the furnaces of Dachau shut down.” –David Brower, Director of Sierra Club
“The continued rapid cooling of the earth since WWII is in accord with the increase in global air pollution associated with industrialization, mechanization, urbanization and exploding population.” –Reid Bryson, Global Ecology
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“The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.” –Nigel Calder, International Wildlife
“Capitalism is destroying the Earth. Cuba is a wonderful country. What Castro's done is superb.” –Helen Caldicott, Environmental scientist
"Scientists who work for nuclear power or nuclear energy have sold their soul to the devil. They are either dumb, stupid, or highly compromised.” –Helen Caldicott, Environmental scientist
“Free enterprise really means rich people get richer. And they have the freedom to exploit and psychologically rape their fellow human beings in the process.” –Helen Caldicott, Environmental scientist
"Every time you turn on an electric light, you are making another brainless baby." –Helen Caldicott, Environmental scientist
“To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world overpopulation problem” –Dr. Lamont Cole, Yale University Environmentalist
“In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of Global Warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill… All these dangers are caused by human intervention. The real enemy, then, is the humanity itself.” –The Council of Club of Rome
“In order to stabilize world population, we must eliminate 350,000 per day.” –Jacques Yves Costeau, French Explorer
“The biggest obstacle was mixing abortion with overpopulation. These are two things that have nothing to do with each other.” –Jacques Yves Costeau, French Explorer
“The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.” –Jacques Yves Costeau, French Explorer
“I didn't came to Cuba because I care about the coral reef conservation, I came because I wanted to help my friend Fidel Castro to get back Guantánamo Bay” –Jacques Yves Costeau, French Explorer
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“I suspect that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in balancing ecosystems.” –John Davis, Editor of Wildlife Conservation Magazine and Earth First! Journal
“Human beings, as species, have no more value than slugs.” –John Davis, Editor of Wildlife Conservation Magazine and Earth First! Journal
“Do the “Wild Earth” and the “Wildlands Project” advocate the end of industrial civilization? Most assuredly. Everything civilized must go!” –John Davis, Editor of Wildlife Conservation Magazine and Earth First! Journal
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“The extinction of the human species may not only be inevitable but a good thing... This is not to say that the rise of human civilization is insignificant, but there is no way of showing that it will be much help to the world in the long run.” –The Economist editorial
“If radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS” –Ecotage, an offshoot of Earth First!
“We must make this an insecure and uninhabitable place for capitalists and their projects. This is the best contribution we can make towards protecting the earth and struggling for a liberating society.” –Ecotage, an offshoot of Earth First!
“Giving society cheap, abundant energy ... would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun –Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
"In ten years all important animal life in the sea will be extinct. Large areas of coastline will have to be evacuated because of the stench of dead fish." –Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
"The battle to feed humanity is over. In the 1970s the world will undergo famines… hundreds of millions of people (including Americans) are going to starve to death." –Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
"Smog disasters" in 1973 might kill 200,000 people in New York and Los Angeles. –Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
"I would take even money that England will not exist in the year 2000." –Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
"Before 1985, mankind will enter a genuine age of scarcity . . . in which the accessible supplies of many key minerals will be facing depletion." –Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
"By 1985 enough millions will have died to reduce the earth's population to some acceptable level, like 1.5 billion people." –Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
"By 1980 the United States would see its life expectancy drop to 42 because of pesticides, and by 1999 its population would drop to 22.6 million." –Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
"Actually, the problem in the world is that there is much too many rich people..." –Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun." -Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
"We've already had too much economic growth in the United States. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the disease, not the cure." –Paul Ehrlich, Environmental Guru
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“We must make this an insecure and inhospitable place for capitalists and their projects… We must reclaim the roads and plowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams, free shackled rivers and return to wilderness millions of tens of millions of acres of presently settled land.” –David Foreman, Earth First!
“We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.” –David Foreman, Earth First!
“Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.” –David Foreman, Earth First!
“Certain signs, some of them visible to the layman as well as the scientist, indicate that we have been watching an ice age approach for some time without realizing what we are seeing... Scientists predict that it will cause great snows which the world has not seen since the last ice age thousands of years ago.” –Betty Friedan, Harper's Magazine
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“During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.” –Al Gore, Environmentalist and known idiot
“The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.” –Al Gore, Environmentalist and known idiot
“I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.” --Al Gore, Environmentalist and known idiot
“Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.” -Al Gore, Environmentalist and known idiot
“In the last six years, we have been able to stop global warming. No one could have predicted the negative results of this. Glaciers that once were melting are now on the attack. As you know, these renegade glaciers have already captured parts of upper Michigan and northern Maine. But I assure you, we will not let the glaciers win." -addressing the nation as if he were president on.” –Al Gore, Environmentalist and known idiot
“If your baby has a fever, you go to the doctor... You don't speculate that the baby is flame-retardant.” –Al Gore, Environmentalist and known idiot
“Let's face it. We don't want safe nuclear power plants. We want NO nuclear power plants.” –Spokesman for the Government Accountability Project, Institute for Policy Studies
“Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, is not as important as a wild and healthy planets…Some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.” –David Graber, Biologist, National Park Service
"I know scientists who remind me that people are part of nature, but it isn't true. Somewhere along the line ... we quit the contract and became a cancer. We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the Earth.... Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along." –David Graber, Biologist, National Park Service
“This cooling trend will reduce agricultural productivity for the rest of the century.”, –Peter Gwynne, Newsweek Magazine
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“Despite the attractiveness of developmentalist thinking, Marxism also provided a counter-influence.” –Richard Levins, Castro's agricultural advisor
“Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.” –Pentti Linkola, Ecophilosopher and fisherman
“A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.” –James Lovelock, Scientific enviromentalist
“China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“Climatologists are all agreed that we'd be lucky to see the end of this century without the world being a totally different place, and being 8 or 9 degrees hotter on average.” –James Lovelock. Scientific environmentalist
“ESSO has been the main one in America spreading the disinformation that there is no global warming problem.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“I have heard that the Saudi Arabians are paying Greenpeace to campaign against Nuclear Power. It wouldn't surprise me at all.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history. –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“This programme to stop nuclear by 2020 is just crazy. If there were a nuclear war, and humanity were wiped out, the Earth would breathe a sigh of relief.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future.” –James Lovelock, Scientific environmentalist
“The planet is about to break out with fever, indeed it may already have, and we [human beings] are the disease. We should be at war with ourselves and our lifestyles.” –Thomas Lovejoy, Assistant Secretary, Smithsonian Institution.
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“Cubans are very proud of their current high quality of life... There is currently a very responsible attitude regarding family planning in Cuba.” –Ralph C. Martin, Environmental scientist
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“In ten years, we can reduce our dependence so that we no longer have to import oil from the Middle East or Venezuela.” –Barack Obama, President of USA
“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States: We can't let other countries have the same number of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the U.S. We have to stop these “Third World” countries right where they are. And it is important to the rest of the world to make sure that they don't suffer economically by virtue of our stopping them.” –Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
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“This cooling has already killed hundreds of thousands of people. If it continues and no strong action is taken, it will cause world famine, world chaos and world war, and this could all come about before the year 2000.” –Lowell Ponte, Writer “The Cooling”
“If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels.” –Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and WWF Co-founder
“If you travel as much as we do you appreciate how much more comfortable aircraft have become. Unless you travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.” –Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and WWF Co-founder
“The biggest waste of water in the country is when you spend half a pint and flush two gallons.” –Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh and WWF Co-founder
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“An increase by only a factor of 4 in the global aerosol background concentration may be sufficient to reduce the surface temperature by as much as 3.5 deg. K. If sustained over a period of several years, such a temperature decrease over the whole globe is believed to be sufficient to trigger an ice age.” –S.I Rasool and S.H. Schneider, Science
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“Now, in a widening sphere of decisions, the costs of error are so exorbitant that we need to act on theory alone, which is to say on prediction alone. It follows that the reputation of scientific prediction needs to be enhanced. But that can happen, paradoxically, only if scientists disavow the certainty and precision that they normally insist on. Above all, we need to learn to act decisively to forestall predicted perils, even while knowing that they may never materialize. We must take action, in a manner of speaking, to preserve our ignorance. There are perils that we can be certain of avoiding only at the cost of never knowing with certainty that they were real.” –Jonathan Schell, Writer "The fate of the earth"
“We have to offer up scary scenarios about global warming and destruction of the environment, make simplified, dramatic statements, and make little mention of any doubts one might have… Each of us has to decide what the right balance is between being effective” and being honest.” –Stephen Schneider, Stanford University environmentalist
“We routinely wrote scare stories about the hazards of chemicals, employing words like “cancer”, and “birth defects” to splash a little cold water in reporter faces… Our press reports were more or less true… Few handouts, however, can be completely honest, and ours were no exception… We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment.” –Jim Sibbison, EPA Press Officer
“The truth is that Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Marx, Balanchine ballet et al., don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history. It is the white race and it alone--its ideologies and inventions- which eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.” –Susan Sontag, Writer and communist activist
“I am convinced the prophets of doom have to be taken seriously.” –Maurice Strong, UN Senior advisor of Kofi Annan
“Licenses to have babies incidentally is something that I got in trouble for some years ago for suggesting even in Canada that this might be necessary at some point, at least some restriction on the right to have a child.” –Maurice Strong, UN Senior advisor of Kofi Annan
“We may get to the point where the only way of saving the world will be for industrial civilization to collapse.” –Maurice Strong, UN Senior advisor of Kofi Annan
“It is clear that current lifestyles and consumption patterns of the affluent middle class – involving high meat intake, consumption of large amounts of frozen and convenience foods, use of fossil fuels, ownership of motor vehicles and small electrical appliances, home and work-place, air conditioning, and suburban housing – are not sustainable.” –Maurice Strong, UN Senior advisor of Kofi Annan
“The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.” –John Shuttleworth, Founder of Mother Earth News Magazine
“We can and should seize upon the energy crisis as a good excuse and great opportunity for making some very fundamental changes that we should be making anyhow for other reasons.” –Russell Train, former EPA Administrator and Head of WWF.
“Right now, there are just too many people on the planet.” –Ted Turner, former owner of CNN
“A total world population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal.” –Ted Turner, former owner of CNN
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“If present trends continue, the world will be about four degrees colder for the global mean temperature in 1990, but eleven degrees colder by the year 2000. … This is about twice what it would take to put us in an ice age.” –Kenneth E.F. Watt, Writer and environmentalist
“Cannibalism is a “radical” but realistic solution to the problem of overpopulation.” –Lyall Watson, The Financial Times
“I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds.” –Paul Watson, Co-Founder of Greenpeace
“There's nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win”. –Paul Watson, Co-Founder of Greenpeace
“There are 30-million plus species on this planet. They're all earthlings. They're all equal. Some are more “equal” than others, I admit: earthworms are far more valuable than people.” –Paul Watson, Co-Founder of Greenpeace
“The world will be a much nicer place without us [humans]”. –Paul Watson, Co-Founder of Greenpeace
“We should never feel like we're going too far in breaking the law, because whatever laws you break to liberate animals or to protect the environment are very insignificant compared to the laws that are broken by that parliament of whores in Washington. They are the biggest lawbreakers, the biggest destroyers, the biggest mass-murderers on this planet right now.” –Paul Watson, Co-Founder of Greenpeace
“If you don't know an answer, facts, a statistic, then make it up on the spot.” –Paul Watson, Co-Founder of Greenpeace
“Animal Liberation Front tactics are going to continue. There's not a damned thing you can do about it, you're not going to stop it. So you might as well incorporate it into the movement.” –Paul Watson, Co-Founder of Greenpeace
“The fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it's for what we believe in.” –Paul Watson, Co-Founder of Greenpeace
“We've got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing - in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.” –Timothy Wirth, Environmental Scientist
“This is as good a way [banning DDT] to get rid of all those little brown people in poor countries." –Charles Wursta, Chief Scientist of the Environmental Defense Fund