The War on Humans received a nice write up in World magazine. From the story:
Bioethicist Wesley J. Smith describes the growing influence of โanti-humanismโ in a new digital book and documentary released on YouTube last month. The book and film ask what it means to be human and examines the implications of radical environmentalistsโ claims that humans are no more special than animals or even plants.
This is a serious problem. A pro-human environmentalism promotes human thriving and prosperityโas it also exercises our responsibility to employ responsible environmental practices.
In contrast, an anti-human environmentalism denigrates our species and pursues human-harming policies:
Denying human exceptionalism devalues humanity and leads to a breakdown of morality. The 2004 โHolocaust on Your Plateโ campaign by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals displayed photos of animals in slaughterhouses next to photos of inmates in Auschwitz. โAny movement that canโt distinguish between the worst evils ever done to humankind and animal husbandry [has] lost the ability to talk about morality to anyone,โ Smith said.
Radical environmentalists think that if humans โsee ourselves as just part of nature, then we will be more gentle on the land and we will treat animals more humanely and so forth,โ Smith observed in the film. โIf we see ourselves as just another animal in the forest, thatโs precisely how weโll act.โ
In my view the very future of the environmental movement itself is at stake in this discussion. I mean, who is going to follow a Green flag with an advocacy slogan, โYou are all a cancer on the earth.โ?






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