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.

[Matt Severns]

Taking a page from Flavis Josephous...Look them in the eye and say "You First....."

[Jim Werbaneth]

For once the stupid people refuse to breed.

[Mike O'Brien]

The usual sort of drivel in believing the Gaia as a living organism with a soul and Humans as a virus on the face of the Earth. I am happy to see stupid people die for their beliefs, or fail to breed because of it. Too bad they pass on this kind of garbage.

[Chuang Shyue Chou]

Hahahahah!

[Michael Yarborough]

I wonder if this group qualifies for a darwin award...

[David Allen]

I wouldn't be surprised if they are serious. Romantic ecologism is a growing movement that, along with other pseudo-religions like communism and socialism, seeks to fill the void of true faith. Hitler's Germany was the first modern nation to pass legistlation to protect the environment, and the taking of millions of human lives is not inconsistent with having a passion for ecology. Once people stop believing in God, they don't believe in nothing -- they believe in anything.

[Wilhammer]

I like to remind Vegetarians (now called Vegans) that Hitler was a Vegan too.

[John]

There are also the anarcho-primitivist envirofundies, who advocate a dieback to a world human population of 10's of thousands, living at the level of hunter gatherers. And they have the temerity to use the internet to propagate this shite! ;)

[Smitty]

I hadn't heard of them....

[David Allen]

What the "greens" don't realize (or admit) is that the best way to protect the environment is to encourage capitalism and modernization in areas of the world that are still developing. People who are facing starvation make poor stewards of the land. Conservation, ecology, and love of nature are luxuries that only people who have their basic needs met can afford. Don't get me wrong, I am not in favor of rampant, unregulated industrialization, but the "noble savage" is a myth.