Should We Classify Extreme Misanthropy As Terrorism?

If, as Yvette Cooper suggests, we should be treating extreme misogyny as terrorism, why not go the full hog and treat misanthropy likewise? No, misanthropy is not the logical opposite of misogyny; that would be misandry. In our wonderful English language: andro = male, gyne = female, anthro = ‘man’, i.e. human.

Misanthropy is the aversion to, or even hatred of humanity, as a species. I would venture to suggest that we all suffer from it occasionally; in fact, if you don’t, you’re probably not normal, maybe even a bit of a psychopath. This is on account of the fact that, as far as we are aware, the human species is (probably) unique in its ability for evil, malign destructiveness. No other life form on the planet displays the kind of malignant cunning and selfish, egotistical impulse to destroy in order to personally gain, barring perhaps some of the Great Apes - but the tendency in our closest cousins is not anywhere near as developed as it is in the human species. It is almost certain that no other animal is capable of the sadistic, evil acts perpetrated daily by humans upon other human beings (notably defenceless children) and upon defenceless animals.

So yes, misanthropy is a natural, emotional response to our collectively owned Dark Side. But it should not be a lifestyle choice, or a guiding philosophy; that too is abnormal, and probably evidence of sociopathic tendencies within the individual or the group which embraces such a philosophy. I speak here of the Malthusians; I speak of the neo-Malthusian ‘environmentalists’ who see humanity as a ‘disease’ to be eradicated; I speak of Prince Phillip (who wanted to be reincarnated as a lethal, human-infecting virus), I speak of David ‘plague on the earth’ Attenborough (Attenbollox to his enemies), and I speak of Chris ‘go burn your head’ Packham. The one thing these human race hating neo Malthusians have in common is their overwhelming desire to see the population of humans on the planet drastically reduced (starting with you, of course, not them) - by whatever means - in order to ‘save the planet’ from the alleged twin existential threats of man-made ‘climate breakdown’ and ‘ecological breakdown’.

It is patently obvious that the modern Green movement, with its obsessive desire to eradicate the use of fossil fuels in order to replace them with ‘clean,’ renewable’ and ‘sustainable’ alternatives, plus eradicate traditional farming, is a clear and present danger to human civilisation and the well-being of billions of people. Ironically, the modern Green movement is also a clear and present danger to the environment and non-human species with its insistence that we should industrialise our wild spaces on an unprecedented scale by littering them with land and sea hungry ‘renewables’ installations like solar ‘farms’ and wind turbines.

The modern Green movement is an extremist movement and it is deeply, profoundly and increasingly explicitly misanthropic. Is it not time we labelled it as a terrorist organisation?