The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

This is from the San Francisco Chronicle. I was once lectured about how it is "globally irresponsible" to have a large family by a neighbor who was feeding large quantities of meat every day to an enormous dog. Have you ever had a conversation with someone who thinks like this? Now at last, an organization which takes this sort of thinking to its logical conclusion:

"We can't be breeding right now," says Les Knight. "It's obvious that the intentional creation of another [human being] by anyone anywhere can't be justified today."

Knight is the founder of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, an informal network of people dedicated to phasing out the human race in the interest of the health of the Earth. Knight, whose convictions led him to get a vasectomy in the 1970s, when he was 25, believes that the human race is inherently dangerous to the planet and inevitably creates an unsustainable situation.

"As long as there's one breeding couple," he says cheerfully, "we're in danger of being right back here again. Wherever humans live, not much else lives. It isn't that we're evil and want to kill everything -- it's just how we live."

I'm glad that people who think like this get vasectomies. (Hat tip: Bleeding Brain)