Save The Planet ! Kill The Humans !

That’s what one radical environmentalist, a guy by the name of Paul Watson, is saying:

We should not be living in human communities that enclose tiny preserved ecosystems within them. Human communities should be maintained in small population enclaves within linked wilderness ecosystems. No human community should be larger than 20,000 people and separated from other communities by wilderness areas. Communication systems can link the communities.

In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. 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. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.

We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generations of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Commercial, as well as residential buildings, are moving towards sustainable energy sources, and the business of installation of solar panels has grown manifold. Homeowners and businessmen alike, have thus started to look at solar panels as an investment as well as a home improvement. Benefits like reduction in your energy bill, energy production during peak hours of the day, and most importantly, the abundance in the availability of sunshine have definitely led to the growth in solar panel installations. A friend of mine recently got some Solar WI panels installed and they generate so much energy, without damaging the planet. Renewable energy is the way forward1

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.

All consumption should be local. No food products need to be transported over hundreds of miles to market. All commercial fishing should be abolished. If local communities need to fish the fish should be caught individually by hand.

And if you doubted just how hardcore Paul Watson is, consider this:

Paul Watson is one of the fathers of environmental terrorism. The group he founded and leads, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS), is a pirate organization that sails around the world, terrorizing fishermen. Wearing a long bowie knife and carrying AK-47s on board, he threatens to ram any ship that won’t give in to his demands. Watson was a founder of Greenpeace, but the group banished him in 1977 in disapproval of his violent tactics. He is a board member of the Sierra Club.

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Watson is a misanthrope who has said that “earthworms are far more valuable than people.”

And, unlike people, earthworms can’t blog about just how much of a nut you are.

H/T: Mises Economic Blog