The Voluntary Human Extinction movement advocates for the eventual disappearance of the human race to prevent endangering more life forms and allow the ecosystem to heal. They promote stopping reproduction as a simple course of action and have two types of supporters: volunteers and proponents. The movement is difficult to ascertain in size and scope.
Voluntary Human Extinction is a movement advocating for the eventual disappearance of the human race from the face of the earth. The premise behind the movement is that humanity has been the cause of the extinction of a number of species over the millennia and that the continued expansion of the human race will only endanger more life forms, through the depletion of natural resources of the earth. . According to people who advocate voluntary human extinction, the only logical alternative is to naturally curb humanity’s growth pattern and allow the race to eventually die out on its own.
The members of the movement do not promote any kind of violent act to accelerate this process of human extinction. Instead the Voluntary Human Extinction movement is all about a simple course of action. Humans must choose to stop reproducing. By stopping reproducing, the current overpopulation problems will begin to level off. At the same time, the drainage of the planet’s natural resources will begin to slow down. This will allow the ecosystem to begin to heal from the damage caused during humanity’s domination of the earth. The movement’s essential philosophy is captured in the motto found in most of their literature: We can live long and die.
People who identify with the goal of voluntary human extinction are generally divided into two different advocacy or advocacy classes. One type of supporters is referred to as volunteers. Volunteers are those who have pledged to stop producing offspring or to refrain from having children if they have not yet started reproducing.
Supporters are people who have some sympathy for voluntary human extinction, from the point of view of containing population growth. However, proponents view the extinction of the human race as neither desirable nor practicable. Proponents tend to promote the concept of reducing the size of the human race so that the planet can adequately support both humans and other life forms without depleting vital resources.
The size and scope of the voluntary human extinction movement is difficult to ascertain. However, the movement maintains a website and has received a degree of media attention since the dawn of the 21st century. Les U. Knight is generally recognized as the founder of the VHE movement and is the owner and operator of the website promoting this philosophy.
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