Modern Environmentalists
Modern environmentalists epitomize human arrogance. I can't count on all my digits how many times I've heard "we're destroying the planet", from these people. Their conservative antithites are just as well known for saying things like, "God made the plants and animals for us to use". I feel that both states of mind are equally deluded.

The second of the aforementioned statments is an example of classical ignorance, we're all very used to it, most regard it as repugnant and mildly offensive. It's no longer popular in todays society to humor christoconservative notions of exploiting mother nature. Most people can realize that it's impossible to do whatever you want with out provoking some type of equal or oposite consequence. Old Ideas die with old people, so this mentality doesn't scare me too much.

It is the mentality behind the first of the aforementioned statements that really scares the hell out of me. Who do these neo bohemian ecophiles think we are? By "we", I mean the species Homo sapiens. I hate to kill the ego trip people, but if we were to detonate every single nuclear weopon, in the aresnal of every single country in the world, I think at best, we could kill like 30% of the planet's living organisms. Maybe if we tried purposefully and strategically to detonate said weopons in a way as to maximize biological extripation, we could acheive upwards of that, but I mean come on. If you were at all familiar with the fossil record you would realize 30% is small potatoes. Both the permian extinction(250mya) and the KT extinction(65mya) killed pretty much close to everything, and that was when H. sapiens weren't even a glimmer in daddies eye. At one point it's inferred that fungii were the dominant form of life for some fifty million years, but some how we still managed to evolve from something (which I doubt was fungii). Life continued on, even after it was annihlated.

I would expect that most people reading this have probably just missed my point. Wouldn't ushering in a new dawn of fungii be equivalent to destroying the world? No, comparable perhaps. However there is a high degree of disparity between destroying something, and bringing about a permanent, ireversible change in something. It is a person's ability to percieve this disparity that I feel is significant. It occurs to me that the ultra pseudoliberal faction in this war for mother earth, greatly lacks the ability to make this discerption. If they were so perceptive they wouldn't make such blatant overly simplified(to the extent they're wrong) statements like, "we're destroying the planet". We're not destroying anything directly, we're bringing about a significant changes in the enviroment, via our behavior. Understanding these changes aswell as the multitude of factors contributing toward them, requires a heavy deal of analysis. To assume we are bringing about a complete end of all life is just arrogant. The question that should be be posed is; will we survive ourselves ?

What upsets me further is that I see alot of young people, even younger than me(I'm twenty three), taking up arms for this green cause malarkey. Not because they have any real insight, but because they're angry and need something to direct their angst toward. What it amounts to is, that in a young emotional mind everything fits into a moral dichotomy of good and bad. "I feel bad to hurt mother nature, therefore all who commit said act are worthy recipients of my rage."

If one were quantify all human actions, as a function, and then figure the multitude of effects this function would have on the function of all other species on the planet, you would have a poly dimensional hypercosm , which none of these "environmentalists" could balance, mostly because they dropped out of school to go blow up whaling vessels. The only soution to the worlds ecological dilema that these people have is a passively beligerent means to obtaining nothing. What is the purpose of getting your point across if your point acomplishes nothing.

So pretty much what my contention boils down to is. Human beings can kill each other, but not the entire planet. I want young eco-terrorists, and psuedoenvironmentalists to have a little humility, and realize that. Also, the world would be a better place if people who have an enviromental inclination, would work more on being smart, and less on being angry.