No Environmental Footprint = No Life - Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights

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Dr. Keith Lockitch, fellow at the Ayn Rand Center for Individual Rights, maintains that a big environmental footprint is a great thing because it means human life is being promoted. To leave no footprint at all requires the elimination of human life.

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[wetmocs]

"Environmentalism", as it exists now, is based on mysticism, and is a grave threat to planetary health. We need a reason-based environmentalism that satisfies the short and long term needs of man in a way consistent with our knowledge of how nature works. There is no conflict between a sound environment and prosperity- since man is a living being, the latter requires the former. Nature = reality. I am an objectivist, and also an organic farmer. I don't need bad reasons to be a good steward.

[Astrosisphere]

This has got to be one of my favourite videos on YouTube! Environmentalizm is nothing but a highly flawed counter-productive philosophy and it's an outrage that governments around the world are allowed to take away our freedom in order to adhere to whatever this apparantly compulsary religion preaches at us!

If we threaten ourselves environmentally then surely our best chance of overcoming it is to create a solution with our productivity (adaption, not conservation).

[UltraConservative298]

Environmentalists are all assholes who want to destroy people's liberties through government coercion.

[pgdevil]

@AynRandInstitute The goal of environmentalism is to preserve an environment that can sustain human life. It seeks for the continuation of humanity through maintaining the environment that supports it. I ask you, do you accept that the Earth have limits to growth? There is only so much non-renewable resources to plunder....

[HiltownJoe]

Nice!

So the essence of this Video is:

"The greens make you feel guilty about destroying the planet, we don't. So come and adopt our point of view and feel no guilt anymore."

[olliearl]

Just what I thought, mean nasty people. Thank you for pointing this out so clearly. 

[Wejer3]

This Dr. Keith Lockitch at his best! Highly recommended!

[Wejer3]

@olliearl Climb back into your gutter, bum. This video is not for you.

[olliearl]

Why is it that this person is so out of touch with the simple fact we are destroying and altering much of the place where we live. That is called common sense .The true learning won't be in those books that you use for a back drop, you are quite ignorant of common sense. Such intellectual hogwash.The world is us , not we are the world. Such an ego centered state of mind. Sure we alter the landscape but what if we are conscious of how we alter it instead of the usual selfish mindset. Hogwash

[ShenFromTerraTraba]

Okay, angry environmentalist will make you feel bad, so lets make the land so we can't grow food, make the air in-breathable, kill off the oceans and really piss off those pesky environmentalist. This video is a joke. Without environmentalism, every city dweller would need to wear oxygen mask's today.

[Biostrath]

ayn rand sucks and her legacy is terrible (e.g. this video, her philosophy). Nobody argues against altering nature to our needs (e.g. sustainable agriculture like permaculture). It's the exploitation and destruction of natural capital that disturbs us. If you destroy nature you'll destroy us, since we are part of nature, part of the food chain. Current practices ARE unsustainable, you can't grow forever on a finite sphere. Your economic laws are not real laws like the laws of physics!

[lennaylennay2]

Here's a simple idea, lets say we burn all of the oil that can possibly be formed on the earth by pressure of it. Ignoring trees sence we are destoying them any way, we would instatntly fall into a coma and die bylack of oxegen. Sure you may say but human ingenutity will sovle this problem, well create domes adn live under a gas mask, but i say why can't human enginutiy slove this promblem soon. (mind my spelling)