Only the government can gobble up productive land and make it useless. Florida will “buy the nation’s largest producer of cane sugar” to “restore” the Everglades. … “Environmental groups hailed the undertaking. ‘This is putting it back the way it was in 1890,’ said David Guest, a lawyer with Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund. ‘When you come back in 20 years, it will look indistinguishable from the way it looked before the white man.’” Why stop there? Let’s make the whole US look like before the “white man.” (Those rapists of nature, white men are.) Just kill everybody. We wonder why anyone would do something so destructive as create a computer virus. Mark my words, one of these days we’ll see a greenie engineer a real virus, against which we humans have no defense, and release it into general population.
I tell you, the notion of evenly rotating ecosystems has been beyond pernicious.
What’s the point? Consider the Alaskan refuge. I’ll never visit it. At best I’ll see a nature show where the wildlife is shown to cavort and caper in the tundra. I don’t benefit at all from it. Who does? The “future generations,” for whose sake we are supposed to sacrifice, will likewise not benefit, as they, either, won’t be allowed in there.
I define mental illness as taking your intellectual errors to their logical conclusions; i.e., actually living your life according to some reductio ad absurdum. Environmentalism is a mental illness, insofar as it considers human civilization building to be a bane not a glory. From the innocent at first glance love of “biodiversity” (I admit that there may exist plants and animals for which we have not yet found use; but that’s the only good reason for preserving them for the future) via a religious impulse to serve something greater than oneself, the greenies eventually end up with a reductio that humans don’t belong on earth. Yuck.
Update. Joseph Rago agrees with me in his review of The Happening.