David Foreman

In Their Own Words

David Foreman has this to say ...

(Foreman is founder of The Wildlands Project, a former member and co-founder of Earth First!, and editor and copyright holder of Eco Defense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, published by Earth First Books, 1985. See also: In Their Own Words : Earth First!)

"I think the Earth Liberation Front's a bunch of nitwits, myself, if they're not actually working for industry."
Quoted in "Disruption is activists' business," Los Angeles Times, April 25, 2000.

"Humanity is the cancer of nature," ... and "The optimum human population of Earth is zero."
(Reported in the Sarasota Herald-Tribune, Jan. 17, 1998)

"We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight."
(In Conservative Environmentalism, by James Dunn and John Kinney, 1996)

"I think the whole concept of private property as an ultimate 'good' has got to be replaced. There's a higher good out there than private property ..."
(Animal Rights Reporter, June 1989)

"The worst thing we could do in Ethiopia is to give aid [to starving children]. The best thing would be to just let nature seek its own balance, to let people there just starve."
(In 1987, quoted in The Perfect New Age Man, ZiaNet)

"Suppose your neighborhood is infested with off-road vehicle scum or you chance upon an unattended muscle wagon where it shouldn't be. A quick slash job is in order."
(In Eco Defense: A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching, 1985)

"Human suffering resulting from drought and famine in Ethiopia is tragic, yes, but the destruction there of other creatures and habitat is even more tragic." In Confessions of an Eco-Warrior.

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