[Plantagenet]

Why wait for Peak Oil to bring "doom?" Those so inclined can choose to voluntarily go extinct.

http://www.vhemt.org/

"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.

...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."

[Roccland]

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[Plantagenet]

Roccland...please quit trying to "bootlick the moderators" as you put it in one of your very colorful earlier posts, and just discuss these interesting Peak Oil-related societal issues.

One of the main reasons the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (or Vehement as they call themselves) is calling for humans to go extinct is that they say it will reduce the pressure on Earth's resources, including the use of oil.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', 'V')HEMT is about avoiding breeding, not suicide.

[Madpaddy]

Can we still practice breeding?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Madpaddy', 'C')an we still practice breeding?

[Roccland]

From the site:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'Q'): Are some people opposed to VHEMT?
At first glance, some people assume that VHEMT Volunteers and Supporters must hate people and that we want everyone to commit suicide or become victims of mass murder. It's easy to forget that another way to bring about a reduction in our numbers is to simply stop making more of us. Making babies seems to be a blind spot in our outlooks on life.

[Roccland]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Shannymara', 'V')HEMT is about avoiding breeding, not suicide.

[gnm]

I have just one question for them.....

Can my kids have your stuff?



-G

[seldom_seen]

They are irrelevant. Volunteers are not needed.

Everyone, whether they know it or not is automatically enrolled in the MHEM (Mandatory Human Extinction Movement). There is no opt-in, or opt-out. You're in!

[Plantagenet]

The VHEM has a way cool chant for their pro-human-extinction demonstrations:

"2 4 6 8
We refuse to procreate"

[Laughs_Last]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', 'I') have just one question for them.....

Can my kids have your stuff?



-G

[Roccland]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Laughs_Last', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gnm', 'I') have just one question for them.....

Can my kids have your stuff?



-G

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Laughs_Last', 'S')ome friends of mine and I have been members for what seems like a long time. We're all married now, none with kids. You should expect us to be giving most of it to charity. The rest will be left in trust to our pets, in order to spite all you breeders.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '
')Something I've often noticed that I've always felt was strange: why is it people will frequently give to an anonymous "charity" (the majority of which frequently gets absorbed by various "administrative functions"), and often generously, yet seem to have an almost pathological aversion to providing any assistance to a struggling family member, or a friend or acquaintance in need?

Whatever happened to "charity begins at home"?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'A') harmonica I'm not playing, along with book, is going to one wheelchair-bound regular on the street around here. We'd gotten talking and I'd mentioned there's a possibility, if one has the knack, to make the odd $ playing with a hat out, a much better business plan than starting a "second hand store" since all the 2nd hand places I see around here that start up, flop.

That harp may make a difference for this guy - a lot of happiness and a few extra bucks which appear to be needed.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Plantagenet', 'I') never give money to panhandlers, but I always give money to buskers and street performers because they care enough to be willing to work. I hope I see your friend playing the harp some day, so I can put a couple of bucks in his hat.

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('TWilliam', '
')I'm always suspicious of panhandlers, since I knew a few people in my youth who made literally hundreds, and in some cases more than a thousand dollars a week doing so, when there was absolutely no reason they couldn't work. Not that I could blame them too much for the choice; at least they weren't peddling drugs.

[I_Like_Plants]

. double post sorry.

[TWilliam]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', 'O')h, I almost went off on you, was going to say buskers DO work for their money!