Ishmael-Inspired Faux-Environmentalist Demanded Malthusian Programming But Hypocritically Ate Meat

James Lee

James Lee, a committed nature lover who disagreed with the Discovery Channel’s programming choices, took hostages at the Maryland-based cable station today to bring attention to the ideas on pages 207-212 of My Ishmael, the uncreatively titled sequel to Daniel Quinn’s Ishmael. Both books are against human over-population, and this seemed to have influenced James Lee’s own sentiments:

For every human born, ACRES of wildlife forests must be turned into farmland in order to feed that new addition over the course of 60 to 100 YEARS of that new human’s lifespan! THIS IS AT THE EXPENSE OF THE FOREST CREATURES!!!! All human procreation and farming must cease!

Also, war must be halted. Not because it’s morally wrong, but because of the catastrophic environmental damage modern weapons cause to other creatures. FIND SOLUTIONS JUST LIKE THE BOOK SAYS! Humans are supposed to be inventive. INVENT, DAMN YOU!! …

Saving the environment and the remaning species diversity of the planet is now your mindset. Nothing is more important than saving them. The Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of course, the Squirrels.

The humans? The planet does not need humans.

(From SaveThePlanetProtest.com)

Notice he didn’t mention the piggies, the male chicks, the moo cows, the lambs or the yaks. Which makes me think that despite his hatred of humans and his unfettered love for forest creatures, he was a meat eater.

It figures that a Quinn-inspired eco-activist could think it was okay to eat meat while conspiring to save the planet. I only read Ishmael, not the sequel, but I still remember the shock to my vegan sensibilities when I got to the part where the narrator eats a steak while bemoaning all the damage humans do to the world. “Um, contradiction,” I thought.

James Lee also got inspiration from An Inconvenient Truth starring Al Gore, another burger-loving so-called environmentalist. No wonder Lee didn’t realize that you can’t be a gun-toting, pipe-bomb-wearing, hostage-taking eco-extremist if you eat meat.