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To: GeronL
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement was founded by Les U. Knight, a secondary school substitute teacher who lives in Portland, Oregon.

Although he was raised in a large family, after becoming involved in the environmental movement as a college student in the 1970s, Knight attributed most of the dangers faced by the planet to human overpopulation.

After coming to this conclusion, he joined the Zero Population Growth organization and chose to be vasectomised at age 25. He later concluded that the extinction of humanity would be the best solution to the Earth's environmental problems. He believes that this idea has also been held by some people throughout human history.

15 posted on 08/04/2013 11:20:52 AM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Awgie
He later concluded that the extinction of humanity would be the best solution to the Earth's environmental problems

Save the Planet, Les. Off yourself.

19 posted on 08/04/2013 11:23:25 AM PDT by Regulator
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To: Awgie
The Albigensian (Cathar) heretics of 13th century Occitania and Languedoc (NW Italy, southern France and the present day Catalan province of Spain) believed in the heretical doctrine that the human body and all material things are evil, and that one must escape from the body in order to be holy.

They taught that the principal sin was procreation, since it entrapped more good souls in evil bodies; on the other hand, they hailed as the highest virtue, voluntary death by the refusal of food and drink.

They hoped for the entire extinction of the human race. What a horrible group.

They were pretty much defeated by the Cathar Crusade of the 13th century, which was, on the other hand, a horrible thing in itself.

38 posted on 08/04/2013 11:59:04 AM PDT by Mrs. Don-o (Point of clarification, I hope.)
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To: Awgie
he joined the Zero Population Growth organization and chose to be vasectomised at age 25

And to be lobotomized shortly afterward. Or before ...

80 posted on 08/04/2013 3:54:19 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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