Rosenblog points us to a SFGate.com column featuring the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, a group who hope that the human race will cease to breed, and then … disappear.

Their belief is that the impact of each human on the planet is so great that it is wrong to have more children.

In their FAQ, they asset “no evolutionary mechanism for an instinct to breed exists.” But with a human population of 6 billion and counting, something’s been going on … pretty successfully!

The VHEM seems to think that the desire to have children is either a psychological dysfunction or the result of aberrant socialization. The same FAQ examines the reasons people give for having children and their analysis of the ‘real’ reason. For instance:

Reason Given: I can’t help it, it’s a biological urge.
Real Reasons: Unexamined motivations.
Suggested Alternatives: Institutions await those who can’t control their biological urges.

Reason Given: Pregnancy and childbirth are life experiences.
Real Reasons: Life choices limited by social indoctrination.
Suggested Alternatives: Rent pregnancy simulator. Choose different life experiences.

Reason Given: We want to create a life which embodies our love for each other.
Real Reasons: Ego, times two, minus imagination, equals three plus.
Suggested Alternatives: Garden. Adopt a stream, trail, or hiway. Rescue animals. Protect & restore ecosystems to embody love.

Perhaps the scariest thing on their website is this picture from their information booth at an annual University of Oregon environmental law conference:

(original here)

Nothing like telling a two year old the world is better off without her!

The good news: the “VHEMT is naturally in opposition to involuntary extinction of any species.” But … groups involved in “efforts encouraging human extermination” such as use of weapons “could be called the Terrorist Human Extermination Movement (THEM), but that’s labeling and encourages a “Them or Us” attitude.” That would be bad; after all, don’t they complement each other? -1 life is one step closer to the goal, no?

We look forward to the movement getting traction in Hollywood. Fewer spoiled druggie offspring of ‘talent’ and studio types … that’s something we can get behind.

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Some of our other featured West Coast wackos:

Breasts Not Bombs: That Wasn’t Lesbian Cheerleader Sex, It Was Political Protest

Buy Nothing Day: “Buy Nothing Day?” Oh, Here’s The Notice, Stuck Between The Best Buy Flyer And The Perfume Sample

The World Can’t Wait (aka the Revolutionary Communist Party tries to overthrow the U.S. government, and fails): Did They Forget To Say “Simon Says?”; The World CAN Wait; Communists Are Sexist Thieving Drunks Too; Most Important Day In World History? Apparently, It’s Next Wednesday

The anti-military movement: Bay Area to Military: Go Back To America

And more: When Is The Day Spa Penciled In?

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