Ekolog broni ekologów: Lepiej by ginęli ludzie niż ptaki? Nie znam nikogo, kto tak twierdzi

Garść cytatów z wypowiedzi znanych ekologów - to jeśli pan ekolog nie wierzy,
że są "zieloni" gotowi poświęcić ludzi w imię ochrony przyrody:

If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a
killer virus to lower human population levels. - Prince Phillip, speaking for
the World Wildlife Fund

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity’s sake. It may take our extinction
to set things straight. - Environmentalist David Foreman.

To feed a starving child is to exacerbate the world population problem -
Lamont Cole, Cornell University ecologist.

I suspect
that eradicating smallpox was wrong. It played an important part in
balancing ecosystems. - John Davis, Earth First.

We have wished, we ecofreaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come
and bomb us into Stone Age, where we might live like Indians in our valley,
with ourlocalism, our appropriate technology, our gardens, our homemade
religion—guilt-free at last! - Stewart Brand, Whole Earth Catalog

Politics today is not about human action to liberate mankind from need – it is
all about liberating nature from mankind. - Fred Pearce, environmental writer
and journalist.