The Amboy Times

No Dim Bulbs Here

I'm supposed to be sitting in the dark right now. But I'd rather celebrate the Human Achievement Hour.

Hat tip, MM.

Yeah, that's better.

Ted Turner: Global Warming will Lead to Cannibalism

Hat tip , Hot Air.

...and then he just jumped into his private jet and flew away.

Israel’s Electric Car

Israel knows how to divest terror.

On Mon. (Jan. 21) the Israeli government announced its support of an ambitious plan to install the world's first electric car network in Israel by 2011 The initiative is aimed at addressing global dependence on foreign oil from undemocratic regimes and mitigating the health and environmental damages caused by emissions from gas-burning vehicles. Said Israeli President Shimon Peres, "Today is a new age with new dangers and the greatest danger is that of oil. It is the greatest polluter of our age and oil is the greatest financier of terror.”

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Enviromentalist: Reduce Humanity by 85%

According to Paul Watson of the Sea Shepard Conservation Society, humanity is a virus that is killing it's host, Earth.

A river is an artery and a vein, and streams and brooks are capillaries. Put a dam on a river and you cut off an artery preventing nutrients from moving downstream and you cut off the vein preventing the waste from the land from being removed and cleansed.

Plankton, plants, and especially forests are the lungs of the earth, removing carbon dioxide and producing oxygen. Overfishing, plankton harvesting, and deforestation is literally diminishing global lung capacity.

Species work interdependently to develop mutually beneficial strategies that maintain and strengthen ecosystems. Every species removed diminishes the system and weakens the collective body of the biosphere.

Humans are presently acting upon this body in the same manner as an invasive virus with the result that we are eroding the ecological immune system.

A virus kills its host and that is exactly what we are doing with our planet’s life support system. We are killing our host the planet Earth.

I was once severely criticized for describing human beings as being the “AIDS of the Earth.” I make no apologies for that statement. Our viral like behaviour can be terminal both to the present biosphere and ourselves. We are both the pathogen and the vector. But we also have the capability of being the anti-virus if only we can recognize the symptoms and address the disease with effective measures of control.

This one has Iowahawk writen all over it.

Also blogging, My Pet Jawa

Watson thinks that the parasitical human population should be reduced to less than a billion, and those chosen to survive should inhabit colonies of twenty thousand or less, with uninterrupted wild areas separating them. They will all be vegans or vegetarians, of course, and reproduction will be limited to those who are responsible enough, in Watson's judgement, to handle parenthood.

The Ace of Spades

While he grieves over the extinction of the big animals that used to roam the earth not so terribly long ago -- mastodons, mammoths, etc. -- one can almost hear his pants strain to hold down his erection at the thought of one fairly large hominid -- humans -- becoming extinct or nearly so.

Say Anything

The simple question is:  Why doesn’t this Watson start reducing the population by offing himself?  He could make a great statement by locking himself up in his compost pile with no food or water until nature takes it’s course.  Isn’t that what a leader does, do what he thinks is right.

Conservation Finance

Other quotes from Paul Watson,

“If you don’t know an answer, a fact, a statistic, then … make it up on the spot” (in Earthforce: An Earth Warrior’s Guide to Strategy).

“The fact is that we live in an extremely violent culture, and we all justify violence if it’s for what we believe in” (at the Animal Rights 2002 convention).

“There’s nothing wrong with being a terrorist, as long as you win. Then you write the history” (at the Animal Rights 2002 convention).

“We’re not a protest organization, we’re a policing organization” (on the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society).

“There are 30-million plus species on this planet. They’re all earthlings. They’re all equal. Some are more “equal” than others, I admit: earthworms are far more valuable than people.”

Get a clue, Watson.