Wishing for the extinction of the human race, by human beings, flies in the face of that most important genetically ingrained instinct: survival.  Any asshats who truly desire such an outcome should simply do us all a favor and commit suicide at the earliest possible time. At the very least it may help clean up the gene pool a bit, assuming they haven't already reproduced.

Now, I won't debate your hypothesis that such people are among the AGW crowd. They could well be. But, I suspect they are likely in the minority. I think the majority of them are well meaning albeit seriously misguided and wholly ignorant when it comes to global economics.

I do agree that the idea of deliberately stagnating the global economy, whether to protect the planet (which is seriously naive and, well, insane), or to promote some screwy left wing agenda a la Atlas Shrugged, would be globally disastrous. Positive changes come about through advancement and growth, not stagnation.

I'm just amused that many of these folks are also against war. Now nobody really wants war (near them at least) but I believe it is hardwired into the human mind for a reason... to thin the herd. Now that war has become so surgical with small casualty figures, this self-cleansing is not happening. As a result (IMO) one on one violence is booming. Without war, people in relatively tranquil places are just increasing the number of murderous acts. The hardwiring is kicking in, in the form or individual deviant acts of violence. Those that wouldn't have survived the battlefield or the conditions that are present in the aftermath are now free to live and breed. Just a hypothesis on my part.

I wish they would follow their beliefs, but most insist upon taking everyone else with them.  Some just figure it is a good way to gain power - i.e. just kill off all the intelligent people so the idiots are the new elite.



I doubt most of the people of Stalinist Russia, Maoist China, or Pol Pot Cambodia were insane genocidalist either. But the leaders were and they killed millions while the lemmings sat silently by and watched.  So we have another sort of megalomaniac now.  And as you indicate, most are just stupid people easily lead.  So any idiot will do - this was just demonstrating that the idiots are not in charge of the movement.



When you have the new chic being that unemployment grows the economy (willingly parroted by the sycophantic press), then what else would you expect.  We have one of the stupidest men as president ever, yet the idiotic sycophants think he is brilliant because he is a slick teleprompter reader.  idiocracy is no longer a comedy.  It is a reality.

 I thought you were going to take this in another direction - in the direction that their plans would promote war (after all, economic deprivation is one of the prime causes of war).  But your thought is intriguing.  IN any event, I would chalk your theory up to the law of unintended consequences.