Andy Clarkson pull-quotes: To take just two of innumerable examples, David Attenborough calls for human population control on the grounds that humans are a plague on the Earth, while David Graber openly condemns placing human happiness and fecundity above a wild and healthy planet and hopes for the right virus to come along to solve the “problem.” - Most recently, the Guardian reports a plan to engineer a shorter, smaller human race to cope with climate change. No, this is not an Onion story. The idea comes from a 2012 paper published by the journal Ethics, Policy & Environment, Human Engineering and Climate Change. The paper’s authors are S. Matthew Liao, a bioethics professor at New York University, and Rebecca Roache and Anders Sandberg from the University of Oxford. Ari Armstrong - theobjectivestandard/2014/08/environmentalists-war-people/
Posted on: Wed, 06 Aug 2014 16:29:07 +0000
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