SAVE THE PLANET - KILL YOURSELF

That's what Chris Korda has been saying for years. And he/she/it started the Church of Euthanasia to promote this ideal. [photo here] The guy who is now a girl is a looney. I once witnessed him and his group do a demonstration in Central Square, Cambridge, where they tied a woman to a large pole and carried her around pretending she was being burned on a spit for food. They recommend cannibalism. And suicide. And if not that, at least sterilization.

So, years later, imagine my surprise to discover a serious scientist Dr. Eric Pianka promoting much the same thing. Only instead of voluntary population culling, he recommends biological extermination through airborne ebola. And he presented a talk on just this idea to the Texas Academy of Sciences to an apparent standing ovation after cameras were turned away from the presentation. Below the fold, text from the article in question.

[UPDATE]

Well, it turns out the author of this article, Forrest M. Mims III, has an unspoken agenda, at least according to this blogger. If one follows the links he offers, it presents damning evidence that Mims' quotes are either fabricated or taken grossly out of context. I'll keep Mims' quotes here out of interest, but it appears his article has been thoroughly debunked.

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Mims' quotes:

But there was a gravely disturbing side to that otherwise scientifically significant meeting, for I watched in amazement 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. The speech was given by Dr. Eric R. Pianka (Fig. 1), the University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert who the Academy named the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.

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One of Pianka's earliest points was a condemnation of anthropocentrism, or the idea that humankind occupies a privileged position in the Universe. He told a story about how a neighbor asked him what good the lizards are that he studies. He answered, “What good are you?”

Pianka hammered his point home by exclaiming, “We're no better than bacteria!”

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AIDS is not an efficient killer, he explained, because it is too slow. His favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola ( Ebola Reston ), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. However, Professor Pianka did not mention that Ebola victims die a slow and torturous death as the virus initiates a cascade of biological calamities inside the victim that eventually liquefy the internal organs.

After praising the Ebola virus for its efficiency at killing, Pianka paused, leaned over the lectern, looked at us and carefully said, “We've got airborne 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that.”

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The audience laughed when he said, “You know, the bird flu's good, too.” They laughed again when he proposed, with a discernable note of glee in his voice that, “We need to sterilize everybody on the Earth.”

After noting that the audience did not represent the general population, a questioner asked, "What kind of reception have you received as you have presented these ideas to other audiences that are not representative of us?"

Pianka replied, "I speak to the converted!"

click the link for the full article text. All I can say is that Chris Korda would be proud!!!

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