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Originally Posted by Chris
If you believe you are a plague, feel free to stamp yourself out. 
I subscribe to the Christian belief that the human race was put on Earth to tend and keep it, and it is our failure to be faithful to that command that causes problems for our planet, not the mere fact of our existence.
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Thanks for that Chris, so very spiritual of you..lol but I'm sure you're just teasing.
I don't think Sir Attenborough ever intended to suggest its the mere
existence of humans that's the problem so much as the choices mankind has made and continues to make, and if so then I agree with him.
I'm a "dyed in the wool" environmentalist, I live within my means, come from a small family and don't go around breeding.
Plague? Well I suppose that depends on your definition. If everyone lived as I do, I'm sure our planet would be a lot better off. And I think we'd
all be better off too.
But yes, I do realise that even as an environmentalist my actions are leading to the destruction of the planet too, since I'm still a consumer and I buy all sorts of unnecessary junk. However, I do feel powerless to bring about positive environmental change as do many people. In my view, it's not people like us that can be (entirely) blamed for the environmental destruction, but rather those within our society who've been entrusted with the power to bring about change but yet refuse to do it. Historically it's nearly always the case that those who can easily bring about change, are the primary beneficiaries of the then status quo and hence have a vested interested in maintaining it. These people also tend to be very wealthy, and so their interest is usually driven not by survival, but by one form of greed or another.
So although as a consumer I'm still part of the plague, I nibble on the left over corn stalks or whatever the upper echelon master locusts deem too menial for their own privileged consumption. I serve my masters with humble protest, usually preferring not to feed in swarm, but never without a sense of guilt.
