ndividual is the quasi-environmentalist, who like anyone agrees with the basic idea of preserving the world that man lives in; but has never given serious consideration to what the environmental movement truly stands for. These are the people that I wish to address.
             The first type: the man haters in simple terms are people whose only reason for existence is to impede the progress of mankind for the benefit of nature. Their goal is not just to relinquish man back to the cave but to see him buried in it. Men like Hitler, Stalin, and Mo Tze Sung committed their atrocities in the name of ideologies that held some semblance, no matter how perverted or corrupt, of human interest. The zealot environmentalist seeks the destruction of man for the benefit of nothing. Destruction for the sake of destruction is the end they seek. Most people harbor, although rarely acknowledged let alone celebrated, pride on being human. In the place of this pride the extreme environmentalist has only self-loathing.
             Harsh accusations? Consider the own words. PETA, "even if animal testing produced a cure for AIDS we would be against it!", "human beings do not have a right to life," "mankind is the biggest blight on the face of the earth"(Locke). Dave Foreman, the founder of Earth First, exclaims "until such time as Homo sapiens should decide to rejoin nature, some of us can only hope for the right virus to come along,"(Worceshym). To date David Graber, a biologist with the U.S. National Park Service, has summed up the position of the environmental movement best: "we are not interested in the utility of a particular species, or free flowing river, or ecosystem to mankind.
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