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Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Secular Transhumanist Environmentalists

The transhumanist element in the environmental movement speaks up.

CNS reports:
Ahead of Earth Day on Sunday, an advocacy group warned that the United States is ignoring "the most crucial factor in reducing global warming" -- population control.

"Human population growth is the paramount environmental issue," Ric Oberlink, a spokesman for Californians for Population Stabilization [said].

"Global warming is a very serious problem, but it is a subset of the overpopulation problem," he said.

Oberlink argued that an increase in the emission of "greenhouse gases" -- carbon dioxide and other gases blamed for climate change -- is a result of human activity, "like most environmental problems."

Although one part of the equation is what people do, he said, the other part is how many there are.

"If we had half as many people, we wouldn't have much of a climatic warming problem," argued Oberlink.
Read it here.

Think about that, and how he hopes to achieve that result -- the elimination of several BILLION human beings. Speaking as a human being to me this sort of thing represents pure, distilled evil!

And which humans are to be eliminated first? Hmmmm..., oh yeah!
According to the population group, Americans are "by far the most voracious consumers and the greatest producers of greenhouse gases per capita of any nation on earth."
That's right-- capitalist, consumerist Americans bear the disproportionate blame.

And of course, there's dat ol' debbil, religion!
"Those who surrender reason to religious and political doctrine and push the rubble of their misguided convictions into the path of prudent population reduction policies are complicit in condemning an entire planet to doom," said Alcorn.
That's right folks. Not only are these guys anti-capitalist, they are anti-human, anti-American, and anti-religion. Wow!!!

It is saddening to note that this kind of secular trans-humanist discourse is becoming common on the Left and that it finds shelter within the environmental crusade.

Faugh!