Scientist Says 5 Billion People Must Be Sacraficed To ‘Save’ Planet
Interesting rant on a professor who was applauded by his peers at the Texas Academy of Science after asserting that "the Earth can only be 'saved' if ninety percent of the human beings alive today are purged."
So what if some Piankian disciple--a former student, perhaps, who works in a biological research or weapons laboratory--gains access to a deadly pathogen? What if that person becomes clinically depressed? His wife divorces him, his child dies, he discovers he's dying of cancer... Do you think a depressed and angry Piankian just might convince himself that releasing that agent would be a great service to the higher cause of saving the Earth? Do you think he might be able to infect himself, and then use his own body as the vector to infect others?
I do, too.
And that is why we cannot afford to ignore when academics stand and applaud a man who they just heard openly advocate that the world would be better off if over 5,000,000,000 human beings were to die as a result of a horrible disease.
via Metafilter.