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Greenpeace Leader: We Need To Stunt Growth

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The outgoing leader of Greenpeace wants to stunt U.S. and global economic growth in order to protect the environment from humans who consume energy to achieve their prosperity. "The lifestyle of the rich in the world is not a sustainable model," Gerd Leipold said recently in an interview on BBC's "Hardtalk." "If you take the lifestyle, it's cost on the environment, and you multiply it with the billions of people and an increasing world population, you come up with numbers which are truly scary."

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  • @oreolvrs

    That's great...for you. Your response sounds like you have some jealousy issues towards the rich?

    I eat meat...because cow farts are causing the earth to warm plus I love a really good steak.

  • Radical environmentalists don't seem to understand that first world nations drive technologies that reduces pollution. First world nations have the lowest birth rates. First world nations have the lowest levels of pollution.

    If you want to improve the world, help lift the third world nations out of poverty.

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  • Who's "the rich" and who gets to decide? There's the rub.

  • @erichaynes88 Try telling that to the extremists all you want, they're probably too stupid or downright insane to make sense of even the simplest suggestions.

  • Population control? Wage a war and make it a good one.

  • To see the true face of Imperialism behind So-called Environmentalism :

    watch this : larouchepacDOTcom/node/10018

  • It seems that environmentalists are against the process of burning. The only problem is that animals and plants are being burned daily giving out carbon dioxide. the process is called aerobic respiration and it cannot be stopped. Everyone has to eat.

  • God Dam Environmentalist are NO dam better then the Taliban at killing are Liberty's and Freedom. These basterd Environmentalist are freedom killing mother fookers! How come there not being killed? the same as the terrorist? Purity dam soon are kids are gonna be standing on the EDGE of the road not being able to do a dam thing cuzz some fookn bug or some dum azz reason! God's truth,these fookers need be rounded up and hunted down!

  • @22microns hopefully artificial meat(as sponsored by PETA of all groups) and eventually nanotech fabricators will mean you and your descendants can enjoy meat in the future without any damage being done to the planet.Hopeully emerging technologies like algea oil will ensure that transportation will become more environmentally friendly.just in case any of my comments may appear like a whiny liberal let me assure you im a technocrat

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