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Posted on 05/11/2008 8:58:36 PM PDT by Jacob Kell
"May we live long and die out" is the unofficial motto of a new movement that seeks to improve the Earth's ecosystem by ensuring that the human species does not survive.
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, or VHEMT, consists of volunteers who have made active life decisions to remain childless for the benefit of the Earth, thereby preventing the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals.
While no one person takes credit for being the founder, Les U. Knight created its name and is the spokesperson for the movement.
"We've already exceeded Earth's carrying capacity for humans by quite a bit," Knight told WND. "We are using up our resources. The best way to stop it is by not breeding. It's really the best way because the people we don't create don't exist, and so there's no impact on them."
VHEMT activists believe a smaller population will benefit the Earth by reducing human and environmental catastrophe.
"There is no problem on the planet that would be more easily solved by adding more people," Knight said. "Everything that we like, including clean air and clean water and wilderness to go and visit, all of those will increase as there become fewer of us."
Knight said the greenest habit humans can have is to prevent creation of another member of the species, reducing humanity's ecological footprint on the Earth.
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Okay...you go first.
Hey, Axx-wipes: YOU FIRST!
You think there are too many humans on the planet?
Set a good example and do away with yourselves first.....
Then the rest of us can reflect upon the inspiration of your “example” and have a good laugh at fanatical envirowhackjobs like you.
They have been around for a while. To their credit, they do improve the world by not breeding and therefore extinguishing their own clearly defective genes.
Another death cult.
GMTA! You beat me to it while I was typing my more verbose version......
This movement has serious Jim Jones potential and must be kept away from normal people - perhaps they can be exiled on a remote island and prohibited from leaving or communicating with the rest of humanity.
Les U. Knight ???
(LET’S UNITE)
Pulleeeeeeeeeeazuh!
This has got to be satire.
They are setting an example. They are not breeding. Pay attention.
Definitely does sound like a parody, but there are actually plenty of envirowhackjobs who do sound like this....
“There must be several million people who have arrived at the conclusion that we would be better off without humans.”
When Knight formed the movement, he had one objective in mind:
“The ultimate goal is one I will never see,” Knight said. “I will never see the day that there are no humans on the planet.”
[... the greenest habit humans can have is to
prevent creation of another member of the species...]
Let me try to understand. It’s OK for any other
species to increase, EXCEPT humans.
Go forth and diminish. You’re doing the world a favor.
Linked at article:
Personal information about Les U. Knight.
Bioregion of residence: Cascadia, or Columbiana, or Ecotopia.
Watersheds: Willamette, Columbia.
Family: Human family, same as you, sister or brother, as the case may be. We now have more than six billion members.
Life’s work: To phase out the human race by non-coercive means. VHEMT’s newsletter, These EXIT Times, is now this web site, sharing and enhancing the concept of voluntary human extinction, which is constantly evolving in the world’s consciousness. These EXIT Times, your vehement voice of The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, has been putting the mental in environmental since 1991.
Religious orientation: Eclectic. “Golden Rule” of Christianity, the Tao, and nice stuff like that.
Political orientation: Evolutionary anarchy.
Previous incarnations: I forget. Somebody dead for sure.
Accomplishment to be proud of: Became carfree in 2000.
Recent descent to the dark side: bought a car in 2007.
Favorite Les Talk column from These EXIT Times: “Man-to-Man”.
Irrelevant data: age, gender, sexual orientation, “race,” marital status, income level, body size, physical abilities and disabilities, nationality or politically-defined region of residence, ancestors’ genetic make-up, occupation, diplomas and degrees, awards, last book read, brand of scotch, ad cetera.
Les U. Knight, Editor
These EXIT Times
Portland, Oregon, USA.
Non-violent Darwin award recipients.
A video from their Web site (http://www.vhemt.org), which likens humans to cancer cells:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4369876000541116073
Once again, Tom Clancy is something of a prophet.
And the faster the better.
But they are not advocating that anybody kill themselves, just that people follow their own example and not reproduce. Of course, one need hardly elaborate on the errors involved in this advocacy, even accepting their motivation, but I don’t think they are being hypocritical.
What a F—KING hypocrite...if he truly cares that much, he would do all of us a favor and kill himself NOW....another phony liberal....
A great example of evolution at work!
Kind of like Jim Jones and his crazies set an example? Kind of like China’s one child policy set an example? Planned un-Parenthood’s slaughter of the children? Oh, we’re paying attention alright, we really are.
And we don’t call having a family “breeding”.
You mean like Dr. Kerry N. Bary, Head of Cutter and Diggs Hospital.
[... You mean like Dr. Kerry N. Bary,
Head of Cutter and Diggs Hospital...]
Yeah. Like that! LOL!
Shouldn’t an environmental purist commit suicide for the Earth??
Pray for W and Our Troops
Well, they could go the next step and honor us by leaving.
Most people don't, but it's right there in Webster's Collegiate,
breed... vi 1: to produce offspring by sexual union
Environ-MENTAL cases!
Where can I contribute? I want as many of these people to be childless as possible.
I support them 100%. In fact, if they want to speed up helping the earth by killing themselves, I support them in that endevor as well.
I bet this Knight nut jumps for joy every time there is a natural disaster that kills thousands, and adores people like Saddam Hussein who kills millions.
The only problem is the side he roots for breeds like rabbits...
“[N]ew movement” like hell. I remember stumbling across these characters in the early days of the commercial Internet, around 1994 or so. Must be a slow news day at WND.
LOL! This is nothing new. The Dims have been doing this for 40 odd years...except they don’t include the “live long” part. Their is more like: “Live debauched, and take as many as you can with you!”
Yup—when I first read “Rainbow Six” I thought it was only a matter of time before the real Enviro wackos started to preach this stuff in public—and (surprise, surprise) here it is. Of course, this dovetails perfectly with the Homosexual agenda.
Shouldn’t an environmental purist commit suicide for the Earth??
I can't tell you how much I hate these phoney bastards and their faked piety.
Greener still to just jump off a bridge and feed the fish, Mr. Knight. Anybody who claims to be an environmentalist who does not immediately off himself is a poseur.
"Human beings are a disease. ...A cancer of this planet, you are a plague. ...And...we...are the cure." -- Agent Smith
I don’t see a problem here. If Greens stop having children, their cultural influence will wane and eventually disappear.
I would say that many of them started out childless because they wanted to go to bars and get plastered and hook up with strangers and play Xbox instead of being mommies and daddies with all that responsibility. Then when they were too old and drug-soaked to reproduce, they decided to claim cool environmentalism.
Two words: Retroactive abortion.
Anybody with their only claim is to advocate the eradication of their own species is a useless drain on limited resources.
Also, the more education a woman receives after high school, the more likely she is to have fewer children.
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