Yesterday at lunch in the midst of our discussion, a guest mentioned an organization called “The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Their byline is “May we live long and die out.” You can visit their website at http://www.vhemt.org

Here is what the group explains and says about themselves:

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 Nature’s “experiments” have done throughout the eons.

It’s going to take all of us going.

Visualize Voluntary Human Extinction

Wow! What could be a clearer example of the logical extension and consequences of a mechanistic, Darwinian evolutionary worldview. At least VHEMT is being consistent with their presuppositions. I just can’t figure out on what grounds they think we should do this voluntarily and gradually. I mean, why not just devise a plan by which to wipe out all humans in one fell swoop? Why waste the time to do it gradually? Won’t it be better for the earth to get rid of us humans more quickly?