When Environmentalism Becomes Anti-Humanity

‘Give the earth back to the animals. They deserve it infinitely more than we do.’ – Columbine Shooter

21 August 2018

At one point in our lives, we’ve all heard someone say, ‘the world would be better off without humans.’ Maybe you agreed with the sentiment; maybe you were the one who said it. Regardless, the idea appears to come from good intentions, which is probably why it has endured for so long. It’s an assumption rooted in the truth that humanity is having a detrimental impact on the planet.

Indeed, our unsustainable existence, as it is now, may be damaging the world in a way that puts all of our fellow lifeforms at risk.

But the solution to this issue will never be the reduction of human effort or our ability to thrive on this planet. Merely entertaining the idea is wrong on a moral and logical level. While…