On Wednesday, James Lee took three Discovery Channel employees hostage at corporate headquarters. On Monday, Discovery's Animal Planet airs a marathon of "Whale Wars," a reality television show starring Paul Watson in which environmentalists ram whaling ships and otherwise endanger people in their workplace. In my column @ Human Events, I ask just what is the difference between the gunman in Discovery's lobby ("Humans are the most destructive, filthy, pollutive creatures around") and the lunatic starring on its hit reality show ("Don't bring any more humans into being").

It's an empirical, irrefutable fact that the world's resources are finite. Therefore, we cannot sustain current population growth rates indefinitely. Rush Limbaugh's concept of eternally growing pies of wealth exist only in his drug-addled mind, and in the feeble minds of his adherents and other people who are unaware of simple gradeschool economics that a child could easily understand that somehow elude the understanding of your common stimulus-response Teabagger and market fundamentalist.

Um, okay, thanks for the rant.

Yes, the world's resources are finite, and yes, we should be good stewards of it. However, there's a fine line between being aware and being a total loon, and this guy crossed it a long time ago.

I like your assumptions about your average "teabagger" (weak taunt btw)and the nonsensical connection you make between...well, what really? Comparing people who don't believe the stimulus was a good idea to anti-environmentalists? Just throw out an insult and see if it sticks? You've posted better than that. Try again, and this time think it through.

Again, this all comes down to having no faith in man. And for many of the culture of death left, this self-loathing works to explain for them the evils of man and the inherent good in everything else.

Have any of them considered that man might be here to be a steward of the planet? Those who don't believe in God and for that matter don't believe in man as one of his creations don't think so. But if man were not on this planet it's possible that more resources would be destroyed through the inevitable floods, uncontrolled fires and unpredicted and rampant seismic events that would surely be harmful to the planet.

Also consider that ongoing human innovation and invention has improved the plight of the planet and helped us as animals develop a better coexistence with the natural world.

In our short time here, including the last 100 years of heavy industry, we have not even come close to depleting the planet's resources and many of those that have been used at the greatest rate, have been recognized and replenished by man.

My response to any and all enviro wackos who complain about over population and humans using and wasting resources.
Get sterilized, all of you. If you are truly serious and believe what you say your first natural course of action, based on your professed beliefs would be for you all to have yourself sterilized. When you do that, then and only then start preaching about over population. Walk the talk or STFU.
If you have children then you're a hypocrite. No matter what enviro wackery you fill their heads with,no matter how "carbon neutural"you teach them to live they are still using up resources simply by being alive. Once again an example of some rules are mean't for everyone else but me.
Lastly, if the situation is so dire, prove your compassion for the rest of humanity,all of you commit suicide. By doing that you'll stop using precious resources and possibly allow others,who truly are suffering to have your share.

This goes back to a previous response where I sited women in Britain who are walking the walk by and having themselves essentially sterilized so that they will never produce any more of a carbon footprint. What these self loathing nulls don't consider is that there will always be somebody to replace that carbon footprint and that they are working toward their own extinction.

To that end, would it not work for them to just finish life as soon as possible? If they are that concerned for the planet and the planet's resources, why continue to foul it?

The fact that we're even talking about carbon footprints seriously is ludicrous. But then, so are the enviro/eco nuts.

I'm not sure what Rush Limbaugh and Tea Party market fundamentalism have to do with a violently insane eco-nut but somebody here seems to be trying to make a correlation. The economics of which at least one child on this post seems not to understand.

I don't have cable. I ASSUME there were similar debates to this one on MSNBC?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/geoffrey-dickens/2009/06/10/hardball-journalist-links-rush-limbaugh-holocaust-museum-shooting