Anon.,
First off, yes I did delete the suck it comment, but mostly because I realized it didn't read in the facetious way that I meant it. I wish I could express tone of voice through a little .wav file or something. But then again, why am I really debating decorum with someone who stated above that you thought the world would be better off should Joey perish. I mean sheesh, humans are mammals too.
Yes, clearly we are saying that we want to chemically poison Africans, really any reasonable person would read that based on the perspectives above. Where, where does the anger always come from? And hiding behind the anonymous pseudonym...tsk tsk.
Like all movements, ultimately, the legacy of environmentalism is a mixed bag (as, of course as you mention above the same mixed bag applies to vegetarianism and veganism...note, there is a reason that I think that PETA is fairly intellectually bankrupt). I am all for long term solutions to serious problems, of which of course the environment is one. But compared to the HIV rate in Africa...yeah, I do think that there are a pecking order to these things. I do not believe in biting off one's nose to spite his/her face in order to promote an ideology. I am far more interested in actually bettering peoples' lives.