Wacky Quotes from “Environmentalists”
I care about the landscape, and the animals and the air we breath and the water we drink. I’ve even been lucky enough to physically participate in the conservation of an endangered species – chimps.
But when I think about using the term ‘environmentalist’ to describe myself, I run up against these loons.
“If you ask me, it’d be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it…”—Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute.
“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.
“Isn’t the only hope for the planet that the industrialized civilizations collapse? Isn’t our responsibility to bring that about?”—Maurice Strong, Secretary General 1992 UN Earth Summit
“We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into the Stone Age.”—Stewart Brand
“Everything we have developed over the last 100 years should be destroyed.”—Pentti Linkola
“Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental”—David Foreman, founder of Earth First!
“If there is going to be electricity at all, I would like it to be decentralized, small, solar-powered”—Gar Smith
“The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not another United States…”—Michael Oppenheimer, Environmental Defense Fund
“Man is always and everywhere a blight on the landscape.”—John Muir, founder of the Sierra Club.
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