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Steyn Smears Environmentalism As "Fundamentally Anti-Human"

September 02, 2010 4:30 pm ET — 3 Comments

Guest host Mark Steyn began today by talking about the names of upcoming tropical storms and hurricanes, adopting a bad imitation of a French accent when talking about Tropical Storm Gaston. He then moved on to talking down the economy and ranting about the State Department paying for the translation of Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf's book. Steyn called Rauf a "freeloader."

He also talked at length about the gunman who took hostages at Discovery Communications headquarters yesterday. Steyn blamed his actions on Al Gore and environmental books and soon encouraged anyone who advocates population control for environmental reasons to "set an example" and "jump off a building." Steyn's call might have sounded familiar to regular Rush listeners. He went on to outrageously claim that "environmentalism is fundamentally anti-human" and to blame environmentalism for the bedbug problems in New York City.

Here are the highlights from today's show:

Burn! Limbaugh sub Mark Steyn claims it's "rubbish" that Imam Rauf is "a moderate"

Limbaugh fill-in Steyn: "Environmentalism is fundamentally anti-human"

Rush sub Steyn says the Discovery Channel is "the propaganda arm of the environmental movement"

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    • Author by Conchobhar (September 02, 2010 4:59 pm ET)
         
      Well, that depends on what the definition of "human" is. If a corporation is a human person, he might have a point. If our descendants, and cultures around the world whose subsistence cultures are threatened by destruction of habitat, he's a raving lunatic. I'll take Lunatic for a thousand, Alex.
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    • Author by edrossinoelwein9669 (September 03, 2010 1:03 am ET)
         
      Well, he's right about the bedbugs. Environmental wacko Rachel Carson's Silent Spring gave rise to a world-wide ban on DDT which has resulted in the deaths of millions of children as well as the resurgence of the bedbug.
      And the Environmentalist movement basic tenet is that humans are 'destroying the planet.' The environmental cure for our planetary woes is logically the elimination of humans (at least white, western humans). Some poor environmental diddly wrote a book a few years ago that explored how wonderful the world would be if there were no humans! Of course, the wonder would be totally unknown, as humans are the only cognitive species on the planet. His book would have sold even less copies than it did!
      By the way, subsistence cultures wouldn't get the above reference to Alex. They wouldn't have access to a computer to read the joke, they wouldn't have television, electricity, nor all those environmentally nasty things that silly westerners use every day to complain about the destruction of the world.
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      • Author by Conchobhar (September 04, 2010 11:13 pm ET)
           
        I just love having folks from the right tell me what I think; especially those who think I was directing a jibe to subsistence cultures. But thanks for pointing the obvious out to me. BTW, any scientific backup to those claims of children's deaths and resurgence of bedbugs due to the banning of DDT?

        Did you read the book by that "diddly," read the preface, or hear about it from some third party?
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