Posted by
malize on Tuesday, May 22, 2007 11:36:45 PM
I am going to shamelessly steal the following priceless Goreintologist quotes from Talk Radio KFSO 560 AM's Sussman Files, from their 6-8pm host
Brian Sussman. This is all just to good to not pass along.
"We already have too much economic growth in
the United States. Economic growth in rich countries like ours is the
disease, not the cure."
Paul Elrich, Stanford University biologist and Advisor to Albert Gore
"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
ecological society under socialism. I don't think it's possible under
capitalism."
Judi Barri of Earth First!
"Capitalism is a cancer in the biosphere."
Dave Foreman, Founder, Earth First!
"The
northern spotted owl is the wildlife species of choice to act as a
surrogate for old-growth forest protection," explained Andy Stahl,
staff forester for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, at a 1988 law
clinic for other environmentalists. "Thank goodness the spotted owl
evolved in the Pacific Northwest," he joked, "for if it hadn't, we'd
have to genetically engineer it."
Andy Stahl at a 1988 law clinic for environmentalists, staff forester, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund
"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 Shell, author of Our Fragile Earth
"A global climate treaty must be implemented even if there is no scientific evidence to back the greenhouse effect."
Richard Benedict, an employee for the State Department working on assignment for the Conservation Foundation
"[W]e
have to offer up scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements,
and make little mention of any doubts we may have. Each of us has to
decide what the right balance is between being effective and being
honest."
Stephen Schneider, Stanford University Professor and author Quoted by Dixey Lee Ray in Trashing the Planet (1990)
"I
honor Earth First for having the guts to do the things they do. It's
not for me, but I understand why they do what they do. And, ultimately,
we all help each other."
Brock Adams, VP, Audubon Society, quoted in the Los Angeles Times.
"If
we seek only personal redemption we could become solitary ecological
saints among the masses of those we might classify as 'sinners' who
continue to pollute."
Bill Devall & George Sessions, Deep Ecology: Living As If Nature Mattered Layton
"More
science and more technology are not going to get us out of the present
ecological crises until we find a new religion, or rethink our old
one."
Lynn White, Jr. "The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis," Science, (Mar. 10 1967), p 1206
"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, Friends of the Earth
"The
right to have children should be a marketable commodity, bought and
traded by individuals but absolutely limited by the state."
Keith Boulding, originator of the "Spaceship Earth" concept
"If
radical environmentalists were to invent a disease to bring human
populations back to sanity, it would probably be something like AIDS.
It [AIDS] has the potential to end industrialism, which is the main
force behind the environmental crises."
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