What happens when somebody finally decides to take radical environmental rhetoric seriously, and acts to stop what most environmental leaders agree is the biggest problem on Earth, mankind? You get the Discovery Channel gunman.
Radical environmentalists and their fellow travelers in big media need to treat Lee like a crazy man because the truth is too embarrassing: James Lee was a true believer in the anti-human core of the radical environmental religion, and reportedly was heavily influenced by Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Lee wrote,
"Saving the Planet means saving what's left of the non-human Wildlife by decreasing the Human population. That means stopping the human race from breeding any more disgusting human babies!
You MUST KNOW the human population is behind all the pollution and problems in the world, and YET you encourage the exact opposite instead of discouraging human growth and procreation. Surely you MUST ALREADY KNOW this!"
Here is Lee’s full list of demands. Compared to anti-human rhetoric uttered by leading environmental thinkers and bureaucrats, Lee’s demands don’t look crazy at all.
The buzz among environmental and government leaders at the failed Copenhagen climate summit was that the only real way to “save the planet” is a smaller human population. An advisor to Secretary of State Clinton, Nina Fedoroff was quoted as saying, “We need to continue to decrease the growth rate of the global population; the planet can’t support many more people. There are probably already too many people on the planet.”
For decades now, hardcore environmentalists have preached and practiced a “child-free” life as the only virtuous life for a committed environmentalist.
Lee was attempting to live out, and was apparently willing to die for, the core ideas of the environmental movement. He was sick of the hypocrisy he saw in the movement, and he acted.
Watch for more frustrated eco-terrorists to crawl out of the woodwork as the environmental movement continues its slow fade in the wake of the devastating Climategate scandal.