On the Creepy Dynamics of Boromir-Style Environmentalism

Exhibit A:



No, this is not an anti-environmentalist spoof:

"...Had a look? Well, I'm certain you'll agree that detonating school kids, footballers and movie stars into gory pulp for ignoring their carbon footprints is attention-grabbing. It's also got a decent sprinkling of stardust – Peter Crouch, Gillian Anderson, Radiohead and others.

But it's pretty edgy, given 10:10's aim of asking people, businesses and organisations to take positive action against global warming by cutting their greenhouse gas emissions by 10% in a year, and thereby pressuring governments to act.

"Doing nothing about climate change is still a fairly common affliction, even in this day and age. What to do with those people, who are together threatening everybody's existence on this planet? Clearly we don't really think they should be blown up, that's just a joke for the mini-movie, but maybe a little amputating would be a good place to start?" jokes 10:10 founder and Age of Stupid film maker Franny Armstrong.

But why take such a risk of upsetting or alienating people, I ask her: "Because we have got about four years to stabilise global emissions and we are not anywhere near doing that. All our lives are at threat and if that's not worth jumping up and down about, I don't know what is."

"We 'killed' five people to make No Pressure – a mere blip compared to the 300,000 real people who now die each year from climate change," she adds.

Jamie Glover, the child-actor who plays the part of Philip and gets blown up, has similarly few qualms: "I was very happy to get blown up to save the world." The public reaction to the film will be fascinating...Curtis, writer of Four Weddings and a Funeral and Blackadder and an early 10:10 supporter, acknowledges that the 10:10 film is very direct. "The 10:10 team are a fearless, energetic bunch, completely dedicated to getting the public fired up about climate change. They also turn out to be surprisingly good at blowing stuff up," he said..."

""I was very happy to get blown up to save the world." Does that remind anyone of any other major theme in the news?

The attitude expressed above seems reminiscent of this:

Here are some excerpts from James Lee's manifesto, written before he took hostages at the Discovery Channel:

Focus must be given on how people can live WITHOUT giving birth to more filthy human children ... All programs on Discovery Health-TLC must stop encouraging the birth of any more parasitic human infants and the false heroics behind those actions. In those programs' places, programs encouraging human sterilization and infertility must be pushed. All former pro-birth programs must now push in the direction of stopping human birth, not encouraging it... Also, keep out the fraudulent peace movements. They are liars and fakes and had no real intention of ending the wars. ALL OF THEM ARE FAKE! On one hand, they claim they want the wars to end, on the other, they are demanding the human population increase. World War II had 2 Billion humans and after that war, the people decided that tripling the population would assure peace. WTF??? STUPIDITY! MORE HUMANS EQUALS MORE WAR!... Civilization must be exposed for the filth it is. That, and all its disgusting religious-cultural roots and greed. Broadcast this message until the pollution in the planet is reversed and the human population goes down! Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. ... Find solutions FOR these countries so they stop sending their breeding populations to the US and the world to seek jobs and therefore breed more unwanted pollution babies. FIND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM TO STOP THEIR HUMAN GROWTH AND THE EXPORTATION OF THAT DISGUSTING FILTH! (The first world is feeding the population growth of the Third World and those human families are going to where the food is! They must stop procreating new humans looking for nonexistant jobs!) Find ways so that people don't build more housing pollution which destroys the environment to make way for more human filth! Find solutions so that people stop breeding ...

And in another peculiarly awful manifestation of what has become a true culture of death:

So a few days ago, I mentioned the insanity and evil of Child Free zealots who loathe both children and humanity, saying things like, “The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population. .  .  . If [it] didn’t exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent [it].” calling fertility “the real inconvenient truth” and demanding for a “planetary law” limiting women to a single child in order to “reverse the disastrous global birthrate” which is responsible for climate change.

The response was volcanic and deeply illustrative of the principle that sin makes you stupid, most especially with those people who spend all their time worshipping the Intellect instead of using it.

I’m childfree because I’m a rational thinker and there’s nothing you can do about it.  I don’t believe in “global warming” and I could give a hoot about overpopulation, either.  To have spawn so they can pay more taxes is a horrible and selfish thought.  See you in hell...

We heard from all sorts of people besides Rationalists in reply, including an extraordinary number of trolls who found the link to the post on their child-free websites and who rushed over to work out their personal issues created by their hearing things nobody was saying.  To wit:

Guess what? Some people just don’t WANT kids. Period. End of Story. There is no evil at work. But, I guess you Catholics consider anyone who doesn’t agree with you to be evil, don’t you? That’s right, you don’t even believe in birth control! No wonder you are so angry to those who choose to not have kids-because you don’t have the freedom to make that choice for yourself! Your cult-er-religion won’t allow it!

The notion that somebody’s private decision not to have kids was the issue was a common piece of projection from the Child-Free crowd.  As though the article I quoted was about torch-bearing Catholic Inquisitors invading homes and forcing women into a Handmaid’s Tale nightmare and not about lunatic advocates of the Child-free Movement hailing AIDS for killing people off and advocating a global law to ban childbirth. Rationalists ought to be able to read better than this.  I, for one, have no interest in how people order their private affairs.  I do, however, think that people who cheer for more AIDS deaths and who want to pass laws telling other people they can’t have children are, well, archetypally evil.

Others, in addition to projecting onto Catholics their own draconian lust for power also found time to register their sheer loathing of human beings and their despair (and inability to comprehend simple English).  Example:

Why does it bother you so much that I don’t want to spend my life listening to screaming children, wiping s**t off their a****, and sticky jam of their hands? There are plenty of unemployed, underpaid people having 8, 9, and 10 kids. The human race is in no danger of dying out because I choose to be childfree. And there is no “movement” at work here. We childfree mind our own business-so mind yours! We’re not trying to convert anyone (at least, I’m not).

Contempt for kids?  Check.  Contempt for the poor? Check.  Reading incomprehension?  Check...

Cowards were also heard from:

At this point in time-we could all die tomorrow. It’s only a matter of time before someone “pushes the button”. And I for one am not going to bring a baby into a world where he/she likely won’t live to see adulthood.

As were bigots:

Wow. Who knew that being childfree would cause a bunch of superstitious nuts who never grew out of having an imaginary friend to label us as evil? Best news I’ve had all day. :-)

There were the clueless Catholics:

I’m a childfree Catholic but I believe in global warming, I believe in birth control, AND I think the writer of this article is an ignorant nut job. Not all Catholics are brainwashed sheep. We ARE allowed to form our own consciences.

And the folks suffering from auditory and visual hallucinations who seemed certain that protesting people who celebrate AIDS and want to outlaw childbirth are somehow insisting that everybody must have as many children as possible:

Dear Mr. Shea, if you’re so into people having tons and tons of kids, here’s an idea. I just heard on the news that “Octomom” is applying for welfare in California so her 14 ill-gotten offspring will be sucking money out of taxpayers’ wallets. Why don’t you, Mr. Shea, and some of your other nut job, offspring-obsessed friends go on out there and write her a big check so she can keep supporting her brood? Put your money where your mouth is. You love big families and tons of kids? Start supporting the kids being spewed out by people who have no means or intention of paying for them.

There were the theologians:

Jesus must have been evil too, since he was childfree. The Dalai-Lama and Mother Theresa too.

But the people who really captured the heart and soul of the Child-free Movement were the ones who simply could not resist the urge to spew:

Babies: expensive, smell bad.

Enjoy crappy diapers, ungrateful spawn and lack of money.  Me and my CF husband will be sleeping in, going on great trips and saving loads of money so we can have a great retirement.

It’s close minded views such as this one that push people away from the catholic “faith”. I, having grown up in a catholic house hold, have been subject to the totalitarian mind set of this religion… “believe what we teach or burn in hell” ..is their marching song. Now it seems we humans need to bread in order to “be saved” in the eyes of a religion that has embezzled most of it’s traditions from older faith sets. I guess it shouldn’t surprise me the catholic church demands population.. whom else would fill their coffers were it not for the blind sheep of it’s congregation?

Perfect.  Hatred of children.  Hatred of people with children.  Hatred of Catholics.  And yet again, the bizarre act of projection whereby an article that quotes people who rejoice over AIDS deaths and want to have draconian laws against childbirth somehow gets transmuted in the minds of these “rational” people into some basis for claiming that Catholics are trying to legally compel them into the world of The Handmaid’s Tale.

Positively deranged.  And evil.  Did I mention that?...

It would seem that the eugenics impulse latent in the modern technocratic society is coming out strong these days.