The Miserable Message of Angry Environmentalism

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist Thursday, March 12, 2015

The London Times once asked its readers, "What's wrong with the world today?" G. K. Chesterton, never one to pass up a chance like that, reportedly wrote back a simple response: "Dear Sir, I am."

Modern environmentalists seem to share Chesterton's answer, though their reasoning could hardly be more at odds with his. Humanity, they insist, is what's wrong with the world. We're destroying it, pushing species after species into oblivion and permanently altering earth's climate. But besides voluntary self-extinction, these environmentalists don't offer any solutions.

Instead, they spend their time and money fantasizing about human annihilation. I'm thinking of movies like "The Day After Tomorrow," "The Happening," or disturbing commercials like the infamous ad showing children exploding into bloody pulp because, you see, they wouldn't reduce their carbon footprints.

And last month, a new series of public service messages took up that mantle. Produced by Conservation International, the ads feature A-list celebrities voicing an assortment of living things and habitats who all have one message for us: Nature doesn't need humans, and it can kill us if it likes.