"Environmentalism is an ideology, very much like Marxism, which pretended to base its social critique on a "scientific" theory of economic relations. Like Marxists, environmentalists have had to force the facts to fit their theory." - Ronald Bailey
"The acceptance of the global warming trend isn't any wider than the acceptance of a global cooling trend. Most scientists worth their salt admit that they don't know if the "trend," whichever one they happen to think is occurring, is actually effected by humans or if it's just nature. Most also admit that it can't hurt to cut back on emissions, etc., not because of the greater ecological implications but because they give people cancer and other diseases. Dumping iron in the oceans and dust into the atmosphere will cause problems in themselves, and are just plain silly ideas which I will not address." - Heather Jocelyn Canning
"The earth is not your mother, the whales still swim, the trees dont need a hug, and I don't need a bunch of socialists or worse with a bad case of class envy inspired hatred of our success having any legal jurisdiction over my country. Putting up with the whiney left wing in this country is enough." - ChadManMn, Fark.com
"The inability to benefit from feedback appears to be the primary cause of pseudoscience. Pseudoscientists retain their beliefs and ignore or distort contradictory evidence rather than modify or reject a flawed theory. Because of their strong biases, they seem to lack the self-correcting mechanisms scientists must employ in their work." - Thomas L. Creed
"Nor are the organic food types usually willing to confront the fact that if all food were grown organically, we would be unable to feed the population of the world, and we would also have to cut down a great many forests to cultivate more land for inefficient farming methods, causing global warming in the process." - David Dieteman
"In recent years, the animal-rights movement has been taken over by eco-weenies, Gaia-worshippers, and others who've ensured the debate never veers much beyond legume-popping co-eds in sativa smocks. The very term "animal rights" is off-putting to many, because it confers on animals equal status, allowing the preening moralists of the Left to turn voiceless animals into just another mewling grievance group." - Matt Labash
"They're using environmental rhetoric to cloak agendas like class warfare and anti-corporatism that, in fact, have almost nothing to do with ecology." - Patrick Moore, former director of Greenpeace, on the current state of the Environmental Movement.
"The college idealists who fill the ranks of the environmental movement seem willing to do absolutely anything to save the biosphere, except take science courses and learn something about it." - P.J. O'Rourke
"Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she's losing. Well I say, hard cheese." - Mr. Burns, The Simpsons
"However, when you put metal spikes in trees trying to kill loggers, hack opposing websites to supress speech that you don't like, steal campus newspapers that prints things you don't agree with, torch expensive houses built on land you think should go back to the wild to deprive people of their homes, send bombs to conservative businessmen who you believe don't appreciate the environment, break into research labs and set infected animals free, it's considered "progressive activism" and is regarded by the social elite to be an acceptable means to the end?" - Scoove, Slashdot talkback
"The campaign to stampede the federal government into drastic action to counter "global warming" has never let honesty cramp its style." - Thomas Sowell
"If you think everybody in the worldwide [auto] industry isn't working full-tilt to increase fuel mileage in a badly overcrowded, cutthroat business, then you're probably hugging a tree somewhere in Marin County" - Brock Yates