Let's make sure this whacko is in the 5 billion that must die...

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http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2007/20070506180903.aspx

Eco-Extremist Wants World Population to Drop below 1 Billion
Sea Shepherd founder says mankind is a 'virus' and we need to 're-wild the
planet.'

 By Dan Gainor
The Boone Pickens Free Market Fellow
Business & Media Institute
5/6/2007 7:41:33 PM

Apparently, saving the whales is more important than saving 5.5 billion people.
Paul Watson, founder and president of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society and
famous for militant intervention to stop whalers, now warns mankind is acting
like a virus and is harming Mother Earth.



     Watsons May 4 editorial asked the question The Beginning of the End for
Life as We Know it on Planet Earth? Then he left no doubt about the answer. We
are killing our host the planet Earth, he claimed and called for a population
drop to less than 1 billion.



     The commentary reminded readers that Watson had called humans a disease
before and he wasnt sorry. I was once severely criticized for describing human
beings as being the AIDS of the Earth. I make no apologies for that statement,
the column continued.



     Watson was invoking the worst of Robert Malthus, an English political
economist who claimed that mankind was overpopulating the earth. That claimed
first appeared in the late 1700s. Watson urged some solutions for mankind as
part of a process to need to re-wild the planet:



·        No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated
from other communities by wilderness areas. New York, London, Paris, Moscow are
all too big. Then again, so are Moose Jaw, Timbuktu and even Annapolis, Md.

·        We need vast areas of the planet where humans do not live at all and
where other species are free to evolve without human interference.

·        We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to
fewer than one billion.

·        Sea transportation should be by sail. The big clippers were the finest
ships ever built and sufficient to our needs. Air transportation should be by
solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.

·        At least Watson was generous and said people could still talk with one
another across great distances. Communication systems can link the communities,
he proclaimed from on high.



     The Watson rant kept on going calling for everything from cutting down on
the population of domesticated dogs and cats to cutting down on everything else
in what he called simplify, simplify, simplify.



     Watson essentially called for humans to return to primitive lifestyles. We
need to stop flying, stop driving cars, and jetting around on marine
recreational vehicles. The Mennonites survive without cars and so can the rest
of us.

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