VHEMT

[Red October]

what do you think of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement?
http://www.vhemt.org/

[RedAnarchist]

It can't work - most births in the world are in places where they have little or no Internet connection and/or low levels of literacy so most potential parents wouldn't be able to see or read the VHEMT website. If the whole world was industralised and there was 100% adult literacy and internet connection worldwide, they might have had a chance. Besides, a lot of global warming is out of our control, although we do cause a substantial amount of it.

[MrDoom]

Voluntary human extinction?! WTF!

[Zero]

That has to be the best motto ever.

"May we live long and die out"

Besides not being practical, we would have to kill each other to get our population down to a sustainable level. The last headcount was years ago, and we have already projected to have over-inhabited the planet. In 40 years we will have 4 billion more people, which is mathmatically all the planet can support.

Therefore it is the duty of the Human race to either:

A. Reconcile differences, build a space program, and terraform Mars.
B. Kill billions of people each year, more and more as the years progress.
C. Pretend it's not a problem until we suffocate ourselves.

[Tatarin]

Interesting that they have a logo similar to the Ingsoc logo from the 1984 movie :D.

The problem is that humans, just as any other organism, is intent on survival. And how would they make all humans want to save our planet by extinction? How do they know another intelligent species won't evolve, once we're gone, and wage war and destroy nature like us "before them"?

The reason why our planet is dying by over-production and consumption is simple: capitalism. Capitalism needs something to make money out of, and then sell it - then multiply this by thousands. In communism, we use what we have to use, whatever we use is designed in such a way that it will last, not like today, when the item in question some times (if not majority or all of the times) is designed to break (so that you have to go and get another one).

If humans never went for capitalism, so to speak, our world wouldn't look like the garbage dump it will be within 100 years.

[Ol' Dirty]

I suppose there are some pretty strange people in the world.

Voluntary human extinction is quite extreme, even to me. The worst effects of global warming could be curbed if we made a sincere effort to regulate how much fuel we use. As for the "overpopulation" bit, although colonizing other planets is a neccessity, the best thing to do would be to solve our problems here first.