House of Eratosthenes

The Christmas season has begun. Christmas is all about Christ, and Christ is all about being pro-human. Tragically, this has come to be the time of year when the arguing really ramps up…which makes absolutely no sense at all, until you stop to consider that Christmas is a pro-human holiday.

Some folks don’t like that…

The video above is linked to VHEMT, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement with the catchy tag-line, “May We Live Long and Die Out.” They promote zero, and negative if possible, population growth. Their philosophy is that humans are harmful to the ecosystem and therefore must go away. In other words, environmentalists that are more straight-talking than most of the others. VHEMT literature seems to like to talk about those among their membership who are parents, and therefore apparently hypocritical. Their explanation is that these people became parents before they became “aware,” and since then have pledged to not have any more.

Blogger friend Rick found out about a crazy woman who really took the initiative. I guess when we’ve multiplied just like those cancer cells and killed off the planet, at least everyone will know it wasn’t her fault! We can spend our dying moments thinking about what a good person she was.

Well, there are some trends going on that do make that look appealing. But this is exactly what people were thinking a hundred years ago with the “eugenics” movement. It was commonly thought that those among us who were the “lowest” were the ones who were breeding fastest, and something had to be done to proliferate the good strains of people and keep the bad ones in check. It hasn’t looked that appealing anymore since World War II and the purges of Stalinist Russia. You know, there’s a reason for that. This anti-human stuff has been tried before. You want to talk about metastasizing, well, it metastasized. Into something ugly. Many times.

It turns out, you can be pro-human or anti-human, there is really no in-between.

This blogger over here discovered this, and his essay is worth reading.

Beware of extremist green movements. Give them a wide, wide berth. They’re like the aliens in that “It’s A Cookbook” episode.

Update 11/25/07: A link to a profile of Toni Vernelli — living proof that some of our most hardcore environmentalists are, whether they admit it or not, simply opposed to people…being around. Living. Existing. Thanks to her big mouth, a great many more among the rest of us, are starting to wake up and see what it’s all about.

Voluntary extinction, eh?

Well, guys, we’re waiting for you to voluntarily extinguish yourself. 🙂

( tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick-tick )

I saw this book being pushed on The Weather Channel this evening.

I’d be speculating on the angle it takes, but this review backs my suspicions at least about who is reading it, which gives you insight into the target audience.
- philmon | 11/23/2007 @ 20:40
On cursory inspection most environmental movements are anti-human. If you look at what they say they treat humans as outside the ecosystem.

Here’s an example if bio-diversity is being reduced by human actions isn’t that by definition evolution in action? Whether it’s good or bad for an ecosystem, it is evolution.

Treating an evolutionary system on a moral basis probably falls under one of your milestones to insanity.
- Allen L | 11/23/2007 @ 22:22
I used to know a guy in the 0PG movement. I found him to be one of the most abhorrent people I’ve ever know. Oh he was polite and pleasant in public, but if he didn’t like you you’d turn into a sick and twisted individual somehow. He liked to give lurid gossip about those he disliked.
There was more to hate about him than that but I won’t bother you with more. let’s just say it takes a certain kind of vile and insane person to hate your whole race.
- Tom The Impaler | 11/24/2007 @ 09:46
Why don’t these people just give up having sex? Wouldn’t it make sense to be absolutely sure you don’t “accidentally” procreate? Where’s the sacrifice in screwing all you want without the chance of actually fulfilling the purpose of the sex act?

Selfishness masquerading as magnanimity makes for the most powerful form of self-righteousness, methinks. I’m certain that these people would consider religion the refuge of small and narrow people, not for the likes of them. I’m also certain that the irony of their dogmatic thinking escapes them.
- chunt31854 | 11/25/2007 @ 09:14
Treating an evolutionary system on a moral basis probably falls under one of your milestones to insanity.

Hmmm…good point. I hadn’t thought about this while I was jotting down that list, but I notice the very last milestone is described as

7. Impose a series of litmus tests on strangers to determine if they’re worthy of fundamental respect and human rights, while accusing others of doing exactly that.

…which seems to apply to them and their treatment of homo sapiens. You know, pythons can swallow as many field mice whole as they wish to — but we’re a cancer upon the planet simply because we exist?

Thinking on it further, this does make sense. If these whack-jobs haven’t crossed the seventh & last milestone, then nobody has.
- mkfreeberg | 11/25/2007 @ 10:20
True.

After reading a number of different articles about this I have noticed another, seemingly common thread. It seems the men are the ones getting vasectomies.

“Honey, we really should reduce our carbon footprint would you mind being symbolically castrated?”

“No dear.”
- Allen L | 11/25/2007 @ 20:44
[…] In 2007, it’s safe to say, it is much tougher to die off from lack of ambition than it ever has been in the history of the human race. And with Christmas right around the corner, your bookstores are brimming over with treatises about atheism, which is essentially the randomness of life on earth, especially mankind; global warming, which is the next step, a study about how earth’s ecosystem is glorious, sacred and pristine — except for us. And, thinly disguised dysgenics movements, such as Les U. Knight’s crackpot group and this strange “world without us” item. […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 12/22/2007 @ 08:36
[…] son and I were talking about this yesterday, about his antipathy for the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT). Aside from being anti-human, VHEMT’s mission statement pegs the organization as being deeply […]
- House of Eratosthenes | 07/18/2012 @ 09:47
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- House of Eratosthenes | 07/21/2013 @ 13:16
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