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GREEN: Maybe None: Is having a child -- even one -- environmentally destructive?
San Francisco Chronicle ^
| 11/16/5
| Gregory Dicum
Posted on 11/16/2005 7:45:25 AM PST by SmithL
"We can't be breeding right now," says Les Knight. "It's obvious that the intentional creation of another [human being] by anyone anywhere can't be justified today."
Knight is the founder of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, an informal network of people dedicated to phasing out the human race in the interest of the health of the Earth. Knight, whose convictions led him to get a vasectomy in the 1970s, when he was 25, believes that the human race is inherently dangerous to the planet and inevitably creates an unsustainable situation.
"As long as there's one breeding couple," he says cheerfully, "we're in danger of being right back here again. Wherever humans live, not much else lives. It isn't that we're evil and want to kill everything -- it's just how we live."
Knight's position might sound extreme at first blush, but there's an undeniable logic to it: . . .
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: breeders; whacko
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San Francisco doesn't like breeders. Who knew?
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:45:25 AM PST
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:46:40 AM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
To: SmithL
Why Republicans will eventually take over - we will out breed the liberal-socialists...
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:47:27 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - They want to die for Islam, and we want to kill them.)
To: SmithL
Wherever humans live, not much else lives. It isn't that we're evil and want to kill everything -- it's just how we live."Mr. Les Knight, please show us the way and take the gas pipe first...
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:47:45 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: SmithL
*shrug* Survival of the fittest.
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:48:20 AM PST
by
fluffy
To: SmithL
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:48:26 AM PST
by
clee1
(We use 43 muscles to frown, 17 to smile, and 2 to pull a trigger. I'm lazy and I'm tired of smiling.)
To: SmithL
Why is he still around if he made the decision to exterminate all humans in 1970?
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:48:34 AM PST
by
YOUGOTIT
To: SmithL
I notice these people never begin with the obvious. KILL YOURSELF.
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:48:48 AM PST
by
LS
To: SmithL
Hey, Les! Lay off of the oxygen! You're still hurting the environment.
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:48:48 AM PST
by
Physicist
To: SmithL
Animals that eat leaves off of trees and urinate on shrubs are environmentally destructive as well...
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:48:57 AM PST
by
frogjerk
(LIBERALISM - Being miserable for no good reason)
To: SmithL
If the earth is clean and there are no people around to notice it, is it really clean?
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:48:59 AM PST
by
dinoparty
(In the beginning was the Word)
To: SmithL
San Francisco is the leading proponent of nonreproduction and has been for a long time. The movement mentioned here is just another feel good undertaking to justify unjustifiable behavior.
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:49:15 AM PST
by
billhilly
(If you're lurking here from DU (Democrats unglued), I trust this post will make you sick.)
To: SmithL
Only if the kid turns out to be an environmentalist.
I wonder if they can test for that nowadays?
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:49:27 AM PST
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: SmithL
Knight, whose convictions led him to get a vasectomy in the 1970s, Thank YOU!
To: SmithL
Knight's position might sound extreme at first blush, but there's an undeniable logic to it: Only to a brain-dead liberal.
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:49:44 AM PST
by
dirtboy
(Drool overflowed my buffer...)
To: SmithL
Those who don't remember the lesson of the Shakers are doomed to repeat it.
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:49:45 AM PST
by
rhombus
To: SmithL
Thanks for the article, I need to do a paper on a topic like this. Hopefully I can squeese 4 pages out of this!
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:49:55 AM PST
by
m3d1um
To: SmithL
I heard somewhere that the city of San Francisco has more abortions than live births per year. I should check it out on snopes.com, but with knuckleheads like that guy running around it's soooo plausible.
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:50:08 AM PST
by
adgirl
To: SmithL
Why doesn't this dufus go all the way and do the lemming thing over a cliff into the ocean. I'd be behind him for that.......way behind.
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:50:16 AM PST
by
Godzilla
(Put the FUN back in dysfunctional.)
To: SmithL
Well, maybe this fellow is correct. Perhaps wacko greenies and SF nutjobs shouldn't reproduce.
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posted on
11/16/2005 7:51:16 AM PST
by
TChris
("Unless you act, you're going to lose your world." - Mark Steyn)
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