This guy sure doesn’t pull any punches.
There is always something special about science meetings. The 109th meeting of the Texas Academy of Science at Lamar University in Beaumont on 3-5 March 2006 was especially exciting for me, because a student and his professor presented the results of a DNA study I suggested to them last year.
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But there was a gravely disturbing side to that otherwise scientifically significant meeting, for I watched in amazement as a few hundred members of the Texas Academy of Science rose to their feet and gave a standing ovation to a speech that enthusiastically advocated the elimination of 90 percent of Earth’s population by airborne Ebola. The speech was given by Dr. Eric R. Pianka, the University of Texas evolutionary ecologist and lizard expert who the Academy named the 2006 Distinguished Texas Scientist.
One of Pianka’s earliest points was a condemnation of anthropocentrism, or the idea that humankind occupies a privileged position in the Universe. He told a story about how a neighbor asked him what good the lizards are that he studies. He answered, “What good are you?”
Pianka hammered his point home by exclaiming, “We’re no better than bacteria!”
Professor Pianka said the Earth as we know it will not survive without drastic measures. Then, and without presenting any data to justify this number, he asserted that the only feasible solution to saving the Earth is to reduce the population to 10 percent of the present number.
“Well the only people that would survive are the uber rich think about it, There the only ones who could afford to protect themself from such an outbreak the common people are doomed.”
Won’t really matter though will it? They won’t be uber rich afterwards. It’ll be a level playing field, and hopefully some of those uber rich did something worthwhile with their lives, cause it’s going to take people with calloused hands to rebuild the world. Boardroom jockeys will never make it.
The price of a flat in London would finally be low enough to afford.
I hope he’s at least willing to volunteer to be the first to go.
Will
Yes, because we all know that a massive population is the one and only key to high society. Look to the east, then to the west. What do you see? China… way too many people, not so much on the advanced civilization. Switzerland, not too much on the people, huge on the civilization. Too many people on the same job reduces efficiency. I think we could do quite well on 10%. And the rich have no better chance than anyone else, theres nothing doctors can do for ebola. Nothing.
Also, whats with all these “intelligent” people having no feel for satire and sarcasm? Jesus Christ people, get a clue.
Way I look at it, we may be a disease, infesting the universe, but hell, I’m enjoying it.
This seems to be hitting the mainstream media (in Canada at least). Currently the third story on the CBC news site:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/
Link to the story:
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/04/04/ebola-060404.html