The tree-hugger pysche…

Sep 5, 2008

…is clearly one of delusion.

Exhibit A:

Exhibit B:

How do you communicate with individuals that out of touch with scientific reality? How do you respond to such an irrational, hyper-emotional pysche?

Call it for what is it, I guess. Patrick Moore – Canadian ecologist and founding member of Greenpeace International – says it better than I ever could (0:18 in 2nd video):

To talk about how the tree is alive and has feelings and it hurts it when you cut it down and that sort of stuff – that’s pretty well kindergarten talk. I mean, it’s not true. Trees are plants, like carrots and cabbages.

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  1. Pete
    September 16th, 2008 at 4:31 pm #

    Wow! WTF! Thanks for sharing man. If those folks love the trees so much and don’t want them to express grief through their sap they should buy them! Buy the land. Seems to make sense to me… Maybe we’ll be able to do something with this for Bureaucrash:)

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