Humans are nothing but trouble.
“Mankind is the biggest blight on the face of the earth.”
- Ingrid Newkirk , February 1990.
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People should die to save resources.
“[To conserve scarce resources, there is a] responsibility to end one’s life in the absence of any terminal illness . . . a duty to die even when one would prefer to live. . . . A duty to die is more likely when you have already lived a rich and full life. You have already had a full share of the good things life offers. . . . To have reached the age of, say 75 or 80 years without being ready to die is itself a moral failing, the sign of a life out of touch with life’s basic realities.”
- John Hardwig , 1997.
It would be okay for humans to disappear.
“Aids is not a malediction, but the welcome and natural remedy to reduce the population of the planet…should human beings disappear, I surely wouldn’t mind.”
- David Foreman
Eradicate 98 percent of humankind.
“[M]y three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness with its full complement of species returning throughout the world.â€
- David Foreman
Humanity may be gone in 50 years.
“I’d say the chances are about 50-50 that humanity will be extinct or nearly extinct within 50 years. Weapons of mass destruction, disease, I mean this global warming is scaring the living daylights out of me.”
- Ted Turner , September 27, 2003.
Man is no better than other life forms.
“I reject the idea that humans are superior to other life forms. . . Man is just an ape with an overly developed sense of superiority.”
- Paul Watson
Sometimes it’s OK to kill a child.
“Very often it’s not wrong to kill a child once it’s left the womb. Simply killing an infant is never equivalent to killing a person.”
- Peter Singer
Non-human species are more important than humans.
“The collective needs of non-human species must take precedence over the needs and desires of humans.”
- Reed Noss , 1993.
Humans don’t have a right to life.
“I don’t believe human beings have the ‘right to life.’ That’s a supremacist perversion. A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”
- Ingrid Newkirk , August 1, 1986.
Humans are a plague upon the earth.
“We are not interested in the utility of a particular species, or free-flowing river, or ecosystem, to mankind. They have intrinsic value — more value, to me — than another human body or a billion of them. Human happiness, and certainly human fecundity, are not as important as a wild and healthy planet. I know social scientists who remind me that people are part of nature, but it isn’t true. Somewhere along the line — at about a billion years ago and maybe half that — we quit the contract and became a cancer. We have become a plague upon ourselves and upon the earth. . . . Until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along.â€
- David Graber