More craziness from San Francisco

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 11-17-05 | Gregory Dicum

[ysoh]

"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: Human activities -- from development to travel, from farming to just turning on the lights at night -- are damaging the biosphere. More people means more damage. So if fewer people means less destruction, wouldn't no people at all be the best solution for the planet?

I've been thinking about this a lot lately because my wife and I have been talking about having a child. We're the kind of people who reduce, reuse and recycle. We try hard not to needlessly fritter away resources. We think globally and act locally in our day-to-day decisions. So while the biggest quandary of most couples in our shoes might be what color to paint the nursery, we have to ask ourselves, Is the impact of a new person justified?

[ysoh]

why don't we just make the envirowhackos extinct?

[SamAdams76]

If this guy was a true leader of the movement, he would set an example for the rest of us to follow and commit suicide.

[kb2614]

Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

Why don't they voluntarily "extinct" themselves? You know, for the good of Earth.

;-)

[WasDougsLamb]

Knight, whose convictions led him to get a vasectomy in the 1970s ----Obviously a lobotomy as well.......

[mmercier]

>> Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

These pricks should shoot themselves and spare the rest of us.

Their intent however, is to live and exterminate the rest of us... More room on the streets for their Volvo's and what not.

[DB]

By Knight's own admission he's destroying the planet. Every breath he takes adds more pollution and consumes more resources. So step up to the plate and show you really mean it.

Somehow the good leader is exempt. Only the little people need to go. He's needed to further the cause... Just like a true liberal...

[patj]

led him to get a vasectomy in the 1970s,

At least he's clearing out the gene pool.

[gitmo]

By nearly every measure -- pollution, carbon emissions, forest loss, fishery depletion, soil fertility, water availability and others -- the growing population is wreaking havoc on the Earth's systems. And it's setting our civilization up for a big, hard fall.

So, in order to prevent our civilization encountering this big, hard fall we should wipe out our species. < /democrat logic>

[WasDougsLamb]

[Lauretij2]

Someday someone like this guy will be able to make a virus that'll target only humans and kill all of us.

[ottersnot]

I think we should help them spread the word to liberals everywhete. I'm off to post this at DU....

[CalGOPTom]

Once again I say: be thankful for that loony place across the bay. America needs a sump for its waste.

[bikepacker67]

I wouldn't want to see humans go extinct, but we sure could use a lil' thinning of the herd.

[Kurt_Hectic]

This idea is common in Sci-Fi books and computer games etc as a sign of the futuristic society nearing the apocalypse, and now it is here for real! Those idiots have missed the big point though: there is no lifeform on the planet that doesn't want to exist. A life-form that seeks it's own extinction is therefore un-natural. Un-natural life-forms should be removed from the planet. However: since this is what they want, the problem solves itself really. Good for them! "Good luck" to the organization!

[SIDENET]

We think globally and act locally in our day-to-day decisions.

I bet his car is covered with bumper stickers that say crap like this. I think that is how moonbats remember their talking points.

[bkepley]

We should start with people who use words like "biosphere".

[Alia]

"May we live long and die out," says Naomi Thompson, quoting the VHEMT slogan. Thompson, who is in her late 20s and works as an analyst for Wells Fargo in San Francisco
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I'm [ed: article author, Gregory Dicum] more like Mary and Mike Brune. The Alameda couple are longtime environmentalists. Mike Brune is executive director of the Rainforest Action Network, so he spends his entire workday thinking in excruciating detail about just how much trouble the planet is in.
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"I understand rationally the argument for not having children -- I can see the point," says Mary Brune, a technical writer and, since becoming a mother, co-founder of Making Our Milk Safe, an organization that monitors industrial toxins in human milk (watch this space for more on that issue).

[KateatRFM]

Imagine the impact of a man like this who is a school teacher, telling the children he teaches that the world would be a better place if none of them had ever been born.

Imagine this man telling them that their parents are planet-killers and every breath their parents breathe is destroying the world.

Do you see the makings of another Jonestown here?

[gogogodzilla]

Why is he still alive if he wants to make humanity extinct? He has complete power and total control of one human already... himself.

So why isn't he making himself extinct?

[macamadamia]

I've been thinking about this a lot lately because my wife and I have been talking about having a child. We're the kind of people who reduce, reuse and recycle. We try hard not to needlessly fritter away resources. We think globally and act locally in our day-to-day decisions.


In other words, you're boring...you smell like fermented beans...and you're cheap as hell. Yeah, I can see why you might want to off yourself. Loser!