Ayn Rand described the environmental movement as mankind-hating death-worship.
Michael S. Berliner summarizes this objectivist point of view in his article "If Environmentalism Succeeds, It Will Make Human Life Impossible":
The fundamental goal of environmentalism is not clean air and clean water; rather, it is the demolition of technological/industrial civilization. Environmentalism's goal is not the advancement of human health, human happiness, and human life; rather, it is a subhuman world where "nature" is worshipped like the totem of some primitive religion.
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[T]he naked essence of environmentalism: it mourns the death of one whale or tree but actually welcomes the death of billions of people.
Just the incendiary, divisive rhetoric of one right-wing nutjob? I am a lapsed Objectivist, but Rand and Berliner may have been very, very specific and completely, one hundred per cent accurate in their assessment of environmentalism. Case in point: One prominent American university professor actively advocates the death of 90% of existing human population.
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