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Given their successes in gaining governmental control over many disparate pieces of private property situated near so-called "ecologically sensitive" areas, the advocates of environmental fascism have gained confidence and grown bolder. They are now advocating a move which takes the environmental movement from a practice of petty theft to grand larceny on a breathtaking scale. The more radical practitioners of the theory of intrinsic value are no longer satisfied with the passage of laws which prevent the removal of a tree, the building of a fence or house, or the dumping of a few loads of dirt without permission. Their new Holy Grail is to create millions of acres of wilderness zones which will not merely regulate human usage, but will prevent anyone from venturing into such areas for even esthetic enjoyment. It is the intrinsic theory of value taken to its ultimate conclusion: the total elimination of human beings.

The North American Wilderness Recovery (Wildlands) Project suggested by the Earth First! movement and its founder, Dave Foreman, proposes a violation of property rights which is so outrageous that many people might be tempted to dismiss it out-of-hand.*1 It would be easy to assume from its ludicrous provisions that the Wildlands Project would stand no realistic chance of passage; that defenders of private property could easily ignore it and devote their efforts to other concerns.

Yet fifty years ago, who would have supposed it credible that a snail, an owl, or a tree on one's own land would become excuses for the ecological fascism that has already spread its tendrils not only into American society, but throughout the entire world? The micro-management of land usage we have witnessed in the past thirty years now aspires to "macro-management" of the entire continent.

In these wilderness preserves, all evidence of humanity would be erased. All dwellings, the roads which link them together, the power lines which feed them, and any and all other man-made constructs would be removed and destroyed. Plants and animals -- not people -- would become the definers of value and usage. The needs, interests, or desires of human beings would be ruthlessly excised from any "ecological" decisions by the central planners of this ecological fascism. People would become subordinate to lower life forms in a crazy flip-flop of values and priorities. The needs of other species -- not the protection of human rights -- would become the new basis and rationale for politics if those who accept the credo of Earth First! have their way.

This movement becomes less a wild-eyed pie-in-the-sky and more of a scary potential reality when you realize that otherwise reputable scientists support the general premise if not the specific details of such widespread preservation attempts. John Robinson, a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society, believes preservation should be done on a "landscape level." Another biologist from Oregon, Reed Noss, suggests that conservation must be practiced on a scale large enough to include not only endangered animals or plants, but also supporting flora and fauna and entire ecosystems in which natural selection and adaptation can occur.

 http://home.earthlink.net/~rdmadden/webdocs/Eco-Fascism.html

В "Компьюленте" за прошлый год нашел два материала с Полом Эрлихом, в этом году собираются отмечать его 80-летие. Именно Пол Эрлих запустил миф "демографического взрыва", издав одноименную книгу в 1968 году. Наряду с Маргарет Зангер, Рэйчел Карсон, Джой Адамсон, Деннисом Медоузом и Пенти Линкола он стал одним из "пророков" новой тоталитарной идеологии - энвайронментализма.