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Introducing the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Self-described environmental saviors, they wish everyone would stop having babies in order for the Earth’s puritanical renewal:

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 the 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.

Here’s a thought: What if all the VHEMTers die before all humans are extinct? Who would carry on the cause? Howard Dean’s grandson? Here’s a crackpot article that takes this “Movement” seriously. (Hat tip: IMAPP blog).

Enviro-wacko articles like this make me want to buy a Hummer (if I could). The author (Robert Pryce) preens that hybrid-friendly legislation would (finally?) be a “success story that [neocons] could brag about.” Instead of what you ask? The most successful military operation in history: the Iraq war. Also, does it occur to the crackpot author that Iraqis will democratically elect their new leadership this weekend? I guess, to some on the left, a clean environment trumps liberty and democracy.