Earlier this year, a chap called Brendan O’Neill wrote an eco-satirical column under the pseudonym Ethan Greenhart, in which he (or rather, Ethan) called upon Greens everywhere to pray for an economic downturn. The column argued that nothing would benefit our human-ravaged planet more than a "big, beautiful, stock-crashing, Wall Street-burning, consumer-baiting, home-evicting, bank-busting recession."
We need something to stop humans "raping the planet," and "the recession might just be the chemical castration for the job." A recession could be the "antibody Gaia so desperately needs to deal with her human itch," since it would force people to buy less and live more humbly.
Other gems from the spoof column included: assertions that people who work in shops are comparable to "concentration camp guards"; that humankind is a "poisonous bacteria in Gaia's bloodstream"; that "consumerism makes us mentally ill"; that the consumer society has "turned us into savages . . . well, not us, obviously, but certainly them"; and that a disease should come and decimate "the plague that is mankind."
Not 24 hours after the column was published, "Ethan" received an e-mail (my alter ego came with his own inbox) from Valerie Stevens, chairperson of the U.K.-based Optimum Population Trust. Ms. Stevens, believing — remarkably — that Ethan Greenhart is a real person, wrote: “What a marvellous piece of writing. I feel exactly the same as you!”
As Brendan O’Neill writes: “the environmental movement is now so pompous, hysterical, bloated, and disconnected that it is almost beyond satire.”
Quite.
http://planetgore.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NzM2ODg3NjY3NTk5ZTIzMzgwNTE0MTI0MmU4ZjZkNGY=
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