Friday, May 8, 2009

insain?

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  1. DillonMay 8, 2009 at 4:02 PM

    Yeah, I think this movement takes it just a little too far. There is nothing inherently flawed with humanity--that just wouldn't make much sense in evolutionary terms, nor in historical/prehistorical terms. After all, humans have existed with the earth for hundreds of thousands of years in ways that do not destroy but actually improve their surroundings. There are still tribes of human beings who do just that: take and give and give and take and participate in beneficial relationships with the natural world. There's no reason to think that extinction is the only way to solve the problem, although it definitely would. And I believe I know enough to be able to use the word 'definitely' in that sentence.

    BUT...there's also no reason to believe that we can continue with this way of life, as we've all come to agree in this ISP. I want to take it further and make sure that we all recognize that we are participating in something that far exceeds the horror of the Holocaust or the genocide in Darfur or a combination of any human rights violations that have occured in the past. We're destroying the planet, and the only reason that we're not screaming bloody murder in the streets is because we are at the top of the pyramid scheme. We are comfortable. We are fed, housed, clothed, and sedated with consumption at the expense of everyone under us, everyone we usually can't see. I have absolutely NO respect for dogmatic pacifism. The world would be much better off without dogmatic pacifists. And I truly believe and have internalized that the world would be much better off without people who do not actively (and successfully) stop industrial civilization from killing the planet. I don't care if the most seemingly enlightened person in the world tells you not to worry--put yourself in the middle of a clearcut, an oceanic dead zone, a raft of trash twice the size of Texas, a factory farm, the tar sands in Alberta, the top of a mountain that has been blown off, or memories like flocks of passenger pigeons that darkened the sky for days at a time, old growth cedar forests on the plains of Iraq, or a salmon run that you could hear coming for miles--put yourself there, and the words of these so-called enlightened people become cowardly and irresponsible (putting it nicely) very quickly.

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