ContraCostaTimes.com | 04/03/2006 | Anderson wants her beachmates unharmed
Noted evolutionary ecologist and lizard fanatic Eric Pianka, a one-time Fulbright scholar and Guggenheim fellow recognized with this year’s Texas Academy of Science distinguished scientist award, is apparently advocating a swift and harsh solution to the population bomb and diminishing natural resources.As fellow academy member Forrest Mims III reports in The Citizen Scientist, professor Pianka talked about the need to wipe out most of the human race in his award speech to the 109th annual academy conference last month at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas.
“I watched in amazement,” Mims reports, “as a few hundred members of the Texas Academy of Science rose to their feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech that enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth’s population by airborne Ebola (virus).”
In case you were wondering what sort of thinking was beginning to gain currency in ecological circles.
These sort of nutcase thinking used to be limited to the lunatics of the “deep ecology” movement. It’s depressing to see supposedly mainstream scientists applauding this kind of murderous insanity.
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After the Black Death in the Middle Ages, population in Europe dropped by about a third, and an economic and technological boom ensued for the next hundred years or so. The pathogen involved is now thought to have been a variant of Ebola. So much for history.
Wishing for 90% of humanity to die a horrible death really brings elitism to an entirely new level. I can not call Dr. Pianka a Nazi. The Nazis were not anywhere near as ambitious as Dr. Pianka, and their choice of mode of execution was much more humane. There are some things so stupid that only intellectuals can support them. One can only hope that, when the next pandemic occurs, Dr. Pianka gets it first, and lingers before he dies a slow, painfull, horrible death. In medieval terms, that will teach him the eror of his ways.
If Dr. Pianka’s thinking is typical of intellectual thinking it makes me proud that I am a dumbass redneck.
Are they a MABS yet? Or must they first put words into actions?
I don’t have the moral authority to condemn Pianka’s remarks. A few years ago, in a fouler mood than usual, I made a list of everyone in the world I didn’t hate. Came up with 12 names, out of a population of 6,000,000,000. Sorry, readers, none of you were on the list.
Moreover, if there were some way to positively identify stupidity, I’d pour all of my resources into developing a virus or nanobug to painfully kill people fitting the profile. Please note I’m not referring to lack of intelligence, but rather virulent dumbshittedness. But since the only way I know of to identify stupidity is through actions, I’m just hoping they’ll kill themselves off. (Think of it as evolution in action.)
Way
ahead
of
you,
buddy.
Not murderous. It is already happening in Europe - birth rates not keeping up with death rates. Call it attrition.
The extreme ecological movement is obviously apocalyptic in nature.
Utopia will follow the destruction of all mankind.
A good friend had a continuing refrain when talking about our fellow beings: “It’s time to thin the herd, thin the herd!” Usually at least once a day some dumbsh*t would raise her ire, and that was her response.
On a more sober note, a central thesis in “1491″ is that perhaps as many as 95% of the indian population died of diseases within a century after contact. But even with that incredible thesis, a close look at the book’s figures suggest that it took 27 years and repeated illness to kill off 75% of the Central American indians. So 90% of one disease, it this day….
Personally, I’ll take Mr. Pianka’s remarks with a grain of salt and a dose of penicillin and go to bed.
if was arabs and mezicans I’d jump on board!
Extinction begins at home, I always say.
Having heard a little about this guy on one of the local radio stations in Seattle, Dr. Pianka can “talk the talk” but is he willing to “walk the walk” and GO FIRST?