Reply #58: Did I just read that? [View All]

"I've been a proponent of human dieoff for a few years now, both because it's inevitable and because I think it's the only way we can pay the physical and moral debt we owe the rest of Gaia."

You're talking about the deaths of six billion human beings to satisfy a superstition, an atavism, a sacrifice to an ancient pagan demon-god reborn to again infest the mind of the world.

Do you have any idea how much suffering and misery a die-off would involve? It would be one thousand Holocausts, all at the same time. Three full WW2s each year for 20 years. Hiroshima and Nagasaki repeated, daily, for 110 years. I have seen individual people die of malnutrition, of gunshot wounds, of physical abuse, of influenza and cancer and Creutzfeld-Jacob Disease. To imagine the vast majority of the world's people going through that simultaneously is simply impossible.

If it happens, it will be a scream of unending agony that will echo throughout all time, to every corner and hidden place in the universe.

The die-off is a threat beyond mortal imagining, not a tonic to restore the spring in the loins of a nature goddess. It may indeed be inevitable, but if so, the only worthwhile work remaining for any of us is to prevent it from taking place.

The Earth does not require the blood sacrifice of her children in propitiation for some imagined sin. That is a human idea, the fever of madness induced by a festering conscience. A die-off would be a preventable mass suicide, not a righteous genocide.

Say it ain't so, Paul!

Join our effort to make certain that it never happens. Ever.

--p!