"May We Live Long And Die Out"

Good news for radical Muslims, expansionist Mormons and others who promote procreation as a way to spread their belief system: There's really a group called the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT) -- and it's not attracting the aforementioned procreationists.

Here's how the group describes itself:

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 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.

When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, evolve (if they believe in evolution), and will perhaps pass away, as so many of Mother Nature's "experiments" have done throughout the eons. Good health will be restored to the Earth's ecology... to the "life form" known by many as Gaia.

It's going to take all of us going.

It's good to know that this is a movement that will die off, eh? I can think of no greater ray of hope than a newborn baby, so I'm just not their material.

These folks must all be city dwellers. If they lived anywhere else but Manhattan, London, Tokyo or Berlin, they'd see a world that's very different from the one they see daily from their dreary walk-ups, with its "inexorable horrors which human activity is causing."

They might be interested to know how little of the earth is actually squatted on by humans. It's just five percent of the US landmass, and I think that figure is true -- or even high -- globally.

Ssssh. Don't tell them! I don't think we want folks like this procreating anyway.

h/t Greenie Watch