by Collie Tigges
ctigges@eatfirst.org
The Earth Liberation Front (ELF) is at it again, per-forming acts of eco-terrorism designed to wreak havoc on anyone industrious enough to lead a productive life. These misguided, ignorant, angst-filled people use their environmental “altruism” to justify criminal acts. And while an attack on a research lab, an SUV, or a logging truck, is horrifying, it is important to remember that the agenda underlying eco-terrorism is much more disturb-ing. These groups aren’t looking to improve the earth so much as rid her of what they consider the most destruc-tive of all inhabitants – people.
Environmental groups have already had spectacular success in slowing population growth. The 30-year ban on DDT has resulted in millions of unnecessary deaths (mostly children) from malaria. And while decades of research has proven that DDT is not a threat to humans or the environment, the reality is that it didn’t matter then and it doesn’t matter now. In Dixie Lee Ray’s ex-cellent book, Environmental Overkill, a former chief sci-entist at the Environmental Defense Fund, when asked about his opposition to DDT despite the overwhelming success in reducing the mortality rate in third-world countries, stated that in his opinion the world already had too many people and the banning of DDT “was as good a way for getting rid of them as any.”
A more recent incident involves U.S. food aid that has been rejected by Zambia and Zimbabwe because some of the corn was grown from genetically modified seed. Environmental groups have placed fears, both political and environmental, into the people of these countries. The countries’ governments worry about the “unknown health risks” associated with GM food (and about political backlash from trade partners in anti-GM Europe). And citizens of those countries have been fed so much misinformation that some believe GM food causes HIV while others believe it makes women bar-ren. Millions of people may eventually starve while food that Americans eat everyday sits on docks and rots - rejected because of political posturing and fear-mongering by “environmental” groups.
Eco-terrorists place the “value” of the earth far above the value of human life. As such, their acts are not based in altruism, but rather in genocide.
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