Huffington Post Readers Want You Dead

One of the problems of treating global warming as a cultist religion is that the people who believe in it start acting like cultists.  The suicidal kind.

It's pretty simple.  If you believe that the earth is undergoing catastrophic climate change caused by humans, then you're ultimately led down the path to believe that the only way to fix the problem is to kill off all the humans.  I know it sounds crazy, but it doesn't take much to go from "We're killing the planet" to "Time to kill off the polluters."

Examples A-D are at the Huffington Post where responses to a story on Antarctic storms by Todd Carmichael led many commenters to wish for the death of the majority of the human race.

1. "It is very sad that we treat out planet as a large garbage can and as a giant resource to exploit. But unfortunately for us I believe that Mother Nature will put a stop to it by stopping humans in some way. Wether it be a virus, or extreme weather, or the collapse of the food chain, or even infertility like what happened in the movie "Children of Men" , we are in for a really rough future." 

2. All right, this is going to sound horrible, but I think humanity's best chance is a plague or some other massive depopulator. "Humanity" has still not acted on what is likely a mortal threat to its environment (sort of belies the "sapiens" part of homo sapiens). Hell, 28% of Americans still support Bush

3. Brutal but true.

Hopefully population reduction will be sorted out randomly by unforeseeably severe natural impacts.... otherwise it will ultimately be implemented by the racist, classist , sexist MFs who've got things to this horrific state in the first place, and you can bet they won't be excising themselves.

4. The consolation is that there will be more room to live in once our food supplies erode, because we'll be eating each other. 

All I can say is...it's about time nature flexed her muscles a bit and put us in our place.

The scary part?  Reading through the comments, I saw no responses saying that the killing of billions of human beings was a bad idea.

This of course is the natural progression of couching policy disagreements in terms of crisis management. If someone denies global warming, they're as bad as the holocaust.  Meat is Murder.  Driving a Hummer is tantamount to killing baby penguins.  Bush Administration officials should be tried like the Nazis.  If you can't stop people from acting against your wishes, the only way to change them is to threaten them with violence.  If threats don't work, well, maybe they weren't threats. You thought the Inquisition was bad?  Wait until Al Gore is named the Grand Inquisitor of Global Warming. 

Comments

[Janet]

The Huffington Post readers do not understand that our dependence on foreign oil and the implications of peak oil are the real threats. I made a video that promotes using all domestic energy available to us including expanded drilling and exploration of oil and natural gas.