Finally, a Global Warming proposal that gets to the real agenda for the Eco-Set. From the most surprising of places – you guessed it, academia. I found this post from John Sexton while web surfing last week.
From the country whose major exports are koalas and acting Hemsworth brothers comes this nugget of wisdom courtesy of scholar Patricia MacCormack. In her new book “The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene,” MacCormack offers a novel take on an imaginary problem.
Her general theme is that the planet would be better off without humans. The solution? Start activism to achieve the extinction of mankind.
Sexton’s post digs deeper, and strips down her Manifesto to the belief that “mankind is already enslaved to the point of ’zombiedom’ by capitalism, and because of the damage this has caused, phasing out reproduction is the only way to repair the damage done to the world.”
“But Bob,” you may ask, “if mankind is eradicated, who will be left to read the pretentious pronouncements from pompous professors?” As always, you ask the best questions. The answer would be “nobody,” of course, so I guess the destruction of humanity could be seen as a glass half full sort of situation.
As we contemplate our mortality and its effect on Mother Earth, it would be satisfying to find someone to blame for bringing us to this lowly state. Professor MacCormack is quick to oblige. According to her book, “We’re in the age of the Anthropocene, humanity has caused mass problems and one of them is creating this hierarchal world where white, male, heterosexual and able-bodied people are succeeding, and people of different races, genders, sexualities and those with disabilities are struggling to get that.”
Thank goodness. Professor Sherlock deduced that white men are killing the planet. I was afraid we might make it through at least one scolding without males of the pasty persuasion getting tossed under the bus. All hail the gods of original thought.
That’s the problem with climate alarmists. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we as a nation embraced conservation and ecological programs in the mid-1970s. But, according to the scolds, nothing is ever good enough. Break out the handbaskets, because we’re all going on a little trip.
MacCormack adds to her toxic recipe for saving the earth by dismantling religion, “and other overriding powers like the church of capitalism or the cult of self, as it makes people act upon enforced rules rather than respond thoughtfully to the situations in front of them.”
The Cult of Self. A quick online search defined it as “the force driving the process of desertification in modernity – it creates internal, and then external, wastelands. The Cult of the Self is based on a mistaken anthropology, a false understanding of the nature of the human person.”
I could not have said it better myself. Consider the number of endangered animal species that have seen renewed populations thanks to human intervention. Including, possibly, a white guy or two.
And as for the academic who wants to cure the world by wiping out humans? Professor, lead by example.
