Eric Pianka Quotes

• The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of the natural world.

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  Real   Technology   Men  

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• War and famine would not do. Instead, disease offered the most efficient and fastest way to kill the billions that must soon die if the population crisis is to be solved. AIDS is not an efficient killer because it is too slow. My favorite candidate for eliminating 90 percent of the world's population is airborne Ebola (Ebola Reston), because it is both highly lethal and it kills in days, instead of years. "We've got airborne diseases with 90 percent mortality in humans. Killing humans. Think about that. "You know, the bird flu's good, too. For everyone who survives, he will have to bury nine

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  War   Thinking   Ebola  

  1450

• This planet might be able to support perhaps as many as half a billion people who could live a sustainable life in relative comfort. Human populations must be greatly diminished, and as quickly as possible to limit further environmental damage.

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  People   Support   Environmental  

  1701

• The biggest enemy we face is anthropocentrism. This is that common attitude that everything on this Earth was put here for [human] use.

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  Eric Pianka

  Attitude   Enemy   Use  

  1947

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