The Righteous Wrath Of Gaia

Overpopulation, the boogeyman of the 60's, is rearing its head again in Texas. According to one UT biology professor, it's going to kill us before we even get a chance to drown from global warming. It's a blessing really that Gaia is on her toes and will solve the problem, perhaps with a little assist from her servants, by wiping out 90% of "you" very shortly with Ebola. I imagine only those with tenure will survive...:

A University of Texas professor says the Earth would be better off with 90 percent of the human population dead.

“Every one of you who gets to survive has to bury nine,” Eric Pianka cautioned students and guests at St. Edward’s University on Friday. Pianka’s words are part of what he calls his “doomsday talk” — a 45-minute presentation outlining humanity’s ecological misdeeds and Pianka’s predictions about how nature, or perhaps humans themselves, will exterminate all but a fraction of civilization.

Though his statements are admittedly bold, he’s not without abundant advocates. But what may set this revered biologist apart from other doomsday soothsayers is this: Humanity’s collapse is a notion he embraces.
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“[Disease] will control the scourge of humanity,” Pianka said. “We’re looking forward to a huge collapse.”

He's gotten a few folks upset with his misanthropy, but not many; and some of his students consider him foolish, but not many of those either. In the main his views have been well-received in the classroom. In this age of eco-terrorism, they're really not all that uncommon anymore.

Incidentally, his self-written "obituary" says he "spent nearly 10 years of his life living in the desert, often alone, and he liked to think of himself as a hermit..."
My money's on Professor Pianka's not really being a "people person." Perhaps he'd like some ocicats?

(Via FR.)