Why You Can't Be a Libertarian and Environmentalist at the Same Time

If we want to get into the basic psyche of many libertarians, it is this: they don't like most people. For them most people aren't worth the skin they're encased in. They were brought up or were educated to value only a very narrow definition of what constitutes a worthy human being, and the rest, for them, are fodder. The whole idea that some are entitled to fully decent life and some are not is the underlying truth behind their facile philosophy of survival of the fittest. So now we encounter a special breed of libertarian: the environmental or ecological libertarian. It strikes one as funny at first, because most libertarians are forever griping about government regulations on corporate or entrepreneurial activities that affect the health of the environment. But let us examine this group more carefully. They are not really about making this planet healthy for all humans -- just those who are worthy, and otherwise what they are really talking about is the wild animals, plants and trees, etc. This subgroup has an interestingly ironic psychology: they love nature, forgetting that their fellow humans (even the most contemptible of whom) are a part of nature too. These eco-libertarians actually believe they can save the environment without bothering with the bulk of the human race. I hope they're not suggesting euthanasia! Of course they could be more supportive of birth-control education, but they aren't, because they know they need those right-wing Christian votes to maybe get some of their candidates into office. Yes, overpopulation is the problem, but a lot of the crises this factor causes is because too much of the good land is in the hands of the too few. So the poor must clear wilderness to create new land with which to feed themselves, and can you really blame them -- I mean they are exemplifying the libertarian spirit of independent resourcefulness! But of course, these desperate humans are the very enemy of eco-libertarians. So you can give to wildlife charities to save this or that species, but if people are starving, you aren't going to win the battle to save the natural world. You must save both the humans and the wilderness. There is still room, it just needs to be shared. There are too many large estates and private pleasure parks for the rich that could be farmed to feed the poor. And the rich have confiscated too much former farmland for mineral and fossil fuel extraction, forcing regular people to make a life somewhere else (i.e., clearing the wilderness or else into an urban death-trap). So stand up for something, and support international birth control efforts if you aren't going to stop the seizure of ancient tribal lands! And remember, most of you libertarians came from humble origins a few generations back -- just like 99$% of the world's population. There are people with perfectly worthy genetic potential who are trapped by sociopolitical repression and lack of educational and employment opportunities. No one achieves success without help from someone else -- we are social animals not "lone wolves" after all. Rugged individualism is a myth, and if you examined your own lives, you would recognize the advantages you had and have that others don't, upon which you built and build your illusion that you are homo superior, ready to save Nature from the "vile mob". Please come back to real nature, O eco-libertarians, and embrace your human brothers and sisters whose rags you disdain. We all look the same under our clothes of make-believe identity.