Rush Limbaugh says suicide is a good way to fight climate change

Rush Limbaugh responds to a New York Times climate change reporter who said that population increase is a big contributor to climate change, saying that he should just go ahead and kill himself then...to help the planet.

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Jeffrey Davis

Fri, Oct 23 2009 at 7:55 AM

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What’s the best weapon we have against global warming? Rush Limbaugh. New York Times climate change reporter and blogger, Andrew Revkin, recently pointed out that the rapidly increasing world population is one source of rising greenhouse gas emissions.

Politico.com reports that Limbaugh’s response to him was,

"This guy from the New York Times, if he really thinks that humanity is destroying the planet, humanity is destroying the climate, that human beings in their natural existence are going to cause the extinction of life on Earth -- Andrew Revkin. Mr. Revkin, why don't you just go kill yourself and help the planet by dying?"

Wow. That’s a pretty tough pill to swallow and still keep your cool. In the words of Revkin’s colleague at the New York Times, Paul Krugman, “Always good to remember what we’re dealing with.”

Check out the quick audio clip of this story, via Media Matters.

Do you think Limbaugh is just mad because the NFL denied him ownership of the St. Louis Ram’s franchise? Maybe he thinks they should all kill themselves too.

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Comments: 4

nobody Dec 01 2009 at 11:31 PM

Since the majority of suicides are white males and also the majority of suicides use guns as a method, there must be a lot of conservatives committing suicide

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Daniel Baig Oct 24 2009 at 11:26 AM

Uh, Media Matters IS an authoritative source here -- all they do is link to the relevant AUDIO FROM RUSH' SHOW!!! How is the primary source itself not "authoritative"????

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Aaron Oct 23 2009 at 1:05 PM

Well, maybe Rush is right. I don't like him either, but it always seems that those proposing the idea of cutting back the human population (in whatever form) usually seem to mean the "rest of the human population" and not really themselves. I met a climate reporter who claimed "climate change" was all that and that overpopulation was the primary cause. My problem? She has four children. Hmm... Just like I'm tired of all these so-called environmental activists who want to see "change" happen,

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but they live in New York or LA or London. In other words, they aren't willing to change THEIR habits or lifestyle in any way that's not convenient to them, but they want those of us who live in the country and rural areas to buck up and "go green" in ways that are totally unrealistic for us. Sorry, that's another fail.