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Quotes from Environmentalists

"Climate change provides the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world”

"No matter if the science is all phony, there are collateral environmental benefits" to global warming policies.

-- Christine Stewart, Canadian Environmental Minister, Calgary Herald, 14, December, 1998

"To capture the public’s imagination, we have to offer up some scary scenarios, make simplified, dramatic statements, and little mention of any doubts one might have. Each of us has to decide the right balance between being effective and being honest."

-- Stephen Schneider in interview in Discover Magazine 1989

"Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental."

- David Foreman, Founder of Earth First

Kyoto is "the first component of an authentic global governance."

- Jacques Chirac, President of France, 2000

"If I were reincarnated, I would wish to be returned to Earth as a killer virus to lower human population levels."

-- Prince Philip founder of World Wildlife Fund

"Every time someone dies as a result of floods in Bangladesh, an airline executive should be dragged out of his office and drowned."

-- George Monbiot, Environmental Author, 2006

"A total population of 250–300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."

- Ted Turner, CNN founder