Kill them all: James J. Lee and the fraud of environmentalism
By now I’m sure you’ve heard the story. Yesterday, a guy by the name of James Lee stormed the Discovery Channel headquarters outside of Washington, D.C. and took three people hostage before the police shot him dead. His grievances against the system were outlined in his manifesto, which I republished here last night. Lee’s manifesto reads like a mashup of the Unabomber and Pekka-Eric Auvinen as filtered through the illiterate mind of Jiverly Wong, in which he rages against civilization and how the idiocy of the Crowd is destroying nature. A few excerpts:
2. 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.
4. 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! This is your obligation. If you think it isn’t, then get hell off the planet! Breathe Oil! It is the moral obligation of everyone living otherwise what good are they??
5. Immigration: Programs must be developed to find solutions to stopping ALL immigration pollution and the anchor baby filth that follows that. Find solutions to stopping it. Call for people in the world to develop solutions to stop it completely and permanently. 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!)
9. Develop shows that will correct and dismantle the dangerous US world economy. Find solutions for their disasterous Ponzi-Casino economy before they take the world to another nuclear war.
A few things leap out when you read the manifesto. Beyond the fact that Lee is a barking loony, many of his proposals…make sense. His overpopulation obsession is just an extreme version of the neo-Malthusian ideas that have been pushed by the likes of Paul Ehrlich and the Club of Rome for decades – the idea that we’re headed for ecological collapse unless the human herd is thinned. But Lee also talks about ending immigration, a topic which is never broached by environmentalists, who are typically open borders liberals. He also touches on the massive scam that is the U.S. economy. Whatever else you can say about the guy, he most definitely was not your typical greenie fuckwit.
Yesterday, in an amusing coincidence, Greg Johnson’s Counter-Currents Publishing posted a translated article by Finnish ecophilosopher Pentti Linkola. I wonder if Lee ever read Linkola, because it seems like they’d agree on a hell of a lot. It’s not a fair stretch to say that Linkola is the world’s only honest environmentalist. He argues that the only way to save the planet from the scourge of man is to kill off most of the population, replace democratic governments with fascist dictatorships, and abandon modern technology to return to an agrarian existence. The introduction to “Humanflood,” the Counter-Currents article, gives you a taste of what Linkola is all about:
Is Pentti Linkola posing the most dangerous thoughts mankind has ever considered? Or is he this planet’s only remaining voice of sanity? Living an ascetic existence as a fisherman in a remote rural region of his frigid homeland, the Finnish philosopher has pondered mankind’s position vis-à-vis the earth it inhabits and dares to utter the unspeakable. In order for the planet to continue living, man—or Homo destructivus, as Linkola names him—must be violently thinned to a mere fraction of his current global population. Linkola’s metaphor for the predicament is as follows:
What to do, when a ship carrying a hundred passengers suddenly capsizes and only one lifeboat, with room for only ten people, has been launched? When the lifeboat is full, those who hate life will try to load it with more people and sink the lot. Those who love and respect life will take the ship’s axe and sever the extra hands that cling to the sides of the boat.
As time creaks onward, Linkola’s predictions and indictments grow more dire. He has come to realise that extreme situations demand extreme solutions: “We still have a chance to be cruel. But if we are not cruel today, all is lost.” The sworn enemy of Christians and Humanists both, Linkola knows that the fate of the earth will never be rescued by those who exalt “tenderness, love and dandelion garlands.” Neither the developed nor under-developed populations of the planet deserve to survive at the expense of the biosphere as a whole. Linkola has urged that millions will starve to death or be promptly slaughtered in genocidal civil wars. Mandatory abortions should be carried out for any female who has more than two offspring. The only countries capable of initiating such draconian measures are those of the West, yet ironically they are the ones most hamstrung by debilitating notions of liberal humanism. As Linkola explains, “The United States symbolizes the worst ideologies in the world: growth and freedom.” The realistic solution will be found in the implementation of an eco-fascist regime where brutal battalions of “green police,” having freed their consciences from the “syrup ethics,” are capable of doing whatever is necessary.
You thought your local environmentalists were mental? At least they don’t call for genocide on a scale that would make Hitler and Stalin wince.
Yet as loopy and extreme as we may consider Lee and Linkola, their works call attention to the fact that environmentalism as promoted by the left is an empty, meaningless construct. Environmentalism is a path to nowhere, the equivalent of trying to cure a bullet wound with a Band-Aid. Environmentalists promote saving the Earth through piecemeal measures like driving hybrid cars, using fluorescent lightbulbs, buying carbon offsets, and other solutions that don’t amount to a drop in the bucket of ecological preservation. They have nothing to say about the exponential growth of government, which employs an ever increasing number of people in useless jobs that generate untold waste. They support unchecked immigration, despite the fact that bringing in more people from countries with abysmal conservation records (kinda difficult to care about the environment when you’re a starving low-IQ mestizo peasant) into this insane asylum of a country will only unravel what few advances they make. Think about Al Gore lecturing about climate change while flying around the world in a private jet and you start to understand that environmentalism is about nothing more than allowing the average idiot to continue his mindless, destructive lifestyle while thinking he’s doing something to help.
In his crazed, reprehensible suicide run, James Lee was trying to send us a message – we’re destroying our world and our supposed efforts to stop our own stupid behavior don’t amount to jack. He was making his point with hollow-points. Lee may have been a total nutter, but his ideas were far closer to reality than the latte-sipping SWPL phonies who dominate conservationist discourse. While he doesn’t deserve our praise, along with Joe Stack and Pekka-Eric Auvinen, Lee merits a closer look than the usual cries of condemnation that come whenever someone with a semi-rational agenda commits a horrific act.
While I myself think Pentti Linkola’s prescriptions are way too extreme, and that humanity’s effects on the environment are much less than the doomsayers claim they are, I’m in favor of conservation like any rational, nature-loving human being. Environmentalists aren’t serious about conservation – they only care about maintaining the perks of their meaningless upper middle-class lives and looking good in front of their friends.
