The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement > General Discussion

Posted: 4/5/2004 12:14:39 PM EDT

hopefully the left will embrace this idea

www.vhemt.org/

Q: What is the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement?

VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It's a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We're not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.

We don't carry on about how the human race has shown itself to be a greedy, amoral parasite on the once-healthy face of this planet. That type of negativity offers no solution to the inexorable horrors which human activity is causing.

Rather, The Movement presents an encouraging alternative to the callous exploitation and wholesale destruction of the Earth's ecology.

As VHEMT Volunteers know, the hopeful alternative to the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals is the voluntary extinction of one species: Homo sapiens... us.

Each time another one of us decides to not add another one of us to the burgeoning billions already squatting on this ravaged planet, another ray of hope shines through the gloom.

When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, evolve (if they believe in evolution), and will perhaps pass away, as so many of Mother Nature's "experiments" have done throughout the eons. Good health will be restored to the Earth's ecology... to the "life form" known by many as Gaia.

It's going to take all of us going.

Posted: 4/5/2004 12:19:34 PM EDT

[#1]

If they were serious about their cause they would kill themsleves.

SGtar15

Posted: 4/5/2004 12:32:04 PM EDT

[#2]

[lol]

Someone post this to DU -- maybe we can thin their ranks a bit.

Posted: 4/5/2004 12:38:10 PM EDT

[#3]

Its all the fault of the bad humans, kill off humans to save the earth, hug trees, vote liberal… morons [%|]

Andy

Posted: 4/5/2004 12:38:11 PM EDT

[#4]

[lol]

Posted: 4/5/2004 12:42:51 PM EDT

[#5]

...but one solution to terrorism, gay marriage, and the abortion debate...

I find myself eerily at ease with this philosophy.

Posted: 4/5/2004 12:55:47 PM EDT

[#6]

More room for me!

Bilster

Posted: 4/5/2004 1:02:49 PM EDT

[#7]

Insightful

Posted: 4/5/2004 1:06:55 PM EDT

[#8]

I think it's a great idea (but not for me or mine)...

Posted: 4/5/2004 1:09:00 PM EDT

[#9]

Quoted:
I find myself eerily at ease with this philosophy.

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We could kill EVERYONE! How do you feel about that?

I'm strangely comfortable with it.

Posted: 4/5/2004 1:13:26 PM EDT

[#10]

Quoted:
[lol]

Someone post this to DU -- maybe we can thin their ranks a bit.

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[rofl2]

Posted: 4/5/2004 2:28:58 PM EDT

[#11]

If all the humans are gone, who is going to enjoy the beauty, pick the pretty flowers, and eat the tasty animals?

In fact, there is a strong argument that human pressure on the ecosystem makes it stronger - only the best, brightest, and durable survive; the weak pass away to memory.

Who's memory? Only the human occupants.

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