The Green Agenda to Wagner - Flight of the Bumble bee
"Isn't the only hope for the planet that theindustrialized civilizations collapse?Isn't it our responsiblity to bring that about?"- Maurice Strong,founder of the UN Environment Programme"A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop theUnited States. De-development means bringing oureconomic system into line with the realities ofecology and the world resource situation."- Paul Ehrlich,Professor of Population Studies"The only hope for the world is to make sure there is not anotherUnited States. We can't let other countries have the samenumber of cars, the amount of industrialization, we have in the US.We have to stop these Third World countries right where they are."- Michael Oppenheimer,Environmental Defense Fund"Global Sustainability requires the deliberate quest of poverty,reduced resource consumption and set levels of mortality control."- Professor Maurice King"We must make this an insecure and inhospitable placefor capitalists and their projects. We must reclaim the roads andplowed land, halt dam construction, tear down existing dams,free shackled rivers and return to wildernessmillions of acres of presently settled land."- David Foreman,co-founder of Earth First!"Complex technology of any sort is an assault onhuman dignity. It would be little short of disastrous for us todiscover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy,because of what we might do with it."- Amory Lovins, Rocky Mountain Institute"The prospect of cheap fusion energy is theworst thing that could happen to the planet."- Jeremy Rifkin,Greenhouse Crisis Foundation"Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be theequivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun."- Prof Paul Ehrlich, Stanford University"Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneaththe surface of the earth is a willful expansionof our dysfunctional civilization into Nature."- Al Gore,Earth in the Balance"The big threat to the planet is people: there are too many,doing too well economically and burning too much oil."-- Sir James Lovelock,BBC Interview"My three main goals would be to reduce human population toabout 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructureand see wilderness, with it's full complement of species,returning throughout the world."-Dave Foreman,co-founder of Earth First!"Current lifestyles and consumption patterns of theaffluent middle class - involving high meat intake,use of fossil fuels, appliances, air-conditioning,and suburban housing - are not sustainable."- Maurice Strong,Rio Earth Summit"All these dangers are caused by human interventionand it is only through changed attitudes andbehaviour that they can be overcome.The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."- Club of Rome,The First Global Revolution"Mankind is the most dangerous, destructive, selfishand unethical animal on the earth."- Michael Fox,vice-president of The Humane Society"Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like apathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor."- Sir James Lovelock,Healing Gaia"The Earth has cancerand the cancer is Man."- Club of Rome,Mankind at the Turning Point"A total population of 250-300 million people,a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."- Ted Turner,founder of CNN and major UN donor"... the resultant ideal sustainable population is hencemore than 500 million but less than one billion."- Club of Rome,Goals for Mankind"If I were reincarnated I would wish to be returned to earthas a killer virus to lower human population levels."- Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh,patron of the World Wildlife Fund"I suspect that eradicating small pox was wrong.It played an important part in balancing ecosystems."- John Davis, editor of Earth First! Journal"The extinction of the human species may notonly be inevitable but a good thing."- Christopher Manes, Earth First!"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came upwith the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming,water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill."- Club of Rome,The First Global Revolution"We need to get some broad based support,to capture the public's imagination...So we have to offer up scary scenarios,make simplified, dramatic statementsand make little mention of any doubts...Each of us has to decide what the right balanceis between being effective and being honest."- Stephen Schneider,Stanford Professor of Climatology,lead author of many IPCC reports"Unless we announce disasters no one will listen."- Sir John Houghton,first chairman of IPCC"It doesn't matter what is true,it only matters what people believe is true."- Paul Watson,co-founder of Greenpeace
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Added: August 16, 2008