Radical Environmentalist Admits that Humans Are Exceptional

The New York Times often publishes articles and columns denigrating the idea that human beings have an exceptional status. But the anti-human meme sometimes crashes with the newspaper's focus on convincing us to "save the planet" by cutting off our noses to spite our collective faces.

On such occasions, our unique duties as humans come out of the advocacy drawer, demanding that we sacrifice ourselves -- a core capacity of human exceptionalism -- on the altar of the earth goddess Gaia.

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