The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

[Smitty]

http://www.vhemt.org/

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 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 Nature's "experiments" have done throughout the eons.

It's going to take all of us going.
Many see humor in The Movement and think we can't be serious about voluntary human extinction, but in spite of the seriousness of both situation and movement, there's room for humor. In fact, without humor, Earth's condition gets unbearably depressing -- a little levity eases the gravity.

True, wildlife rapidly going extinct and 40,000 children dying each day are not laughing matters, but neither laughing nor bemoaning will change what's happening. We may as well have some fun as we work and play toward a better world.

Besides, returning Earth to its natural splendor and ending needless suffering of humanity are happy thoughts -- no sense moping around in gloom and doom.

[Mike O'Brien]

Anything Human or post-human would automatically be evil and thus required to be extinct. Besides, they only prey on Humans so their die off would be a positive to the eco-system along with any human symbiotic organisms. Dogs and cats would be allowed to throw off the shackles of their slavery to humanity.

[Jim Werbaneth]

But I have to ask the obvious: How would voluntary human extinction affect the zombies and vampires? After all, they're part of the ecosystem too, and require a human presence.

Human extinction would have a seriously adverse affect on the undead.

[Les U Knight]

Michael, you "wonder if this group qualifies for a darwin award... " Maybe so: http://vhemt.org/media.htm#darwin

[Matt Severns]

Yup....but it would settle the question once and for all and, of course, get them outta my dumpster.....

[Mike O'Brien]

Hey,
that was the theme of a Tom Clancy novel! Of course they unfairly decided to kill the rest of us first so there would be no civilization to return to, because that would be the only way the plan would work.

[Matt Severns]

Here's a plan.....take about 5000 of these people of various ilk, and drop them in the midst of the amazon jungle...and see how long it takes them to devolve to anarchy, war of aggression for food sources, or just say "sod this" and return to whatever land will take them....

[Smitty]

I want that eye in the back of my head....

[David Wickes]

"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)"

Y'know, I'm pretty sure that they'd evolve or not regardless of their belief in evolution.

Must... grow... third... arm...

[Ted Henkle]

VHEMT and their ilk view the earth's ecosystem, along with the creatures that inhabit it, as kind & benevolent. One of my coworkers & I once discussed groups like this. He told me this quote from a biologist: Everything in nature dies a violent death.

[Smitty]

Africa is a good case example of how wrong things can go....