If you ever needed a reason to yell “STOP!” at the top of your lungs about the insanity that is the environmental and animal rights movements in this country, look no further than the video below:
Killing a farming community to save a fucking fish. This is the essence of the inhuman liberal/progressive mind-set. Here’s a link covering the video.
(H/T Little Sis Lou)
It’s insanity! I live in these areas and people are really affected by this. Once lushes lands of fruits and vegetables has turned to an arid desert.
It’s more than insane, it’s outright sinister and criminal – but worst of all, deliberate. I don’t live in those areas, but am wondering where were all the farmers/citizens/residents when these regulations were being cooked and implemented? Why wait until it’s too late to fight the enviroloons? Good example of what happens when we get lazy or apathetic and don’t pay attention to what is being done to us behind our backs. I’m sure this didn’t come up overnight.
I saw this on TV last night on the Hannity Show and it made me sick. This one of the reasons that our food prices are going up here in california. It more easy to get Oranges imported from Chile and Australia than Oranges grown here in California.
One of the protesters said that this is an act of DOMESTIC TERRORISM…I AGREE WITH THAT. For those who are nor aware….The federal govt. has ordered the water to a vaste area of THE SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY, FORMER BREAD BASKET OF THE WORLD TURNED OFF.
We in California are reeling from the effects not only of this situation,,,but with the hold Democratic Party sponsored break down of the economic status of this state.
This story is another example of otherwise good laws and regulations being taken to an absurd extreme.
But on a side note, you are seeing a vision of the future here where the big fight for the most precious commodity will not be oil; it will be water. The American SW is drying up … the wars of the future will be over water. This is just the start.
Gigi’s comment about his not happening overnight …
I’m not voicing an opinion as I am not very familiar with the story and do not know the facts, but I would say that this Delta Smelt thing has been in the news since at least 2007, when “U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger ordered cuts in the amount of water pumped out of the delta in an effort to protect the fish. The ruling caused a 25 to 30 percent reduction in water exports by the State Water Project in 2008, or a loss of 730,000 acre feet of water. An acre foot is enough water to cover an acre in a foot of water.”
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/12/15/MNDD14OIOF.DTL
This story has been ongoing for a while, with lots of twists and turns.
Teachers indoctrinate students to think positive about the Green movement, and I have meet young students whose heart is leaning more toward animals than toward humans, who agree against experiments to save human lives
read the whole thing and the movement to eliminate us , human
It is real, it is happening and people are not aware about the
Evil of the Enviromental movements , it is not make up even PBS , reported , check it out What is the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement? Parents wake up your children, ask question what they learn , because Gaia , seems harmless until closer examination . because they could become pioneros for the human extintion movement, remember in Cambodia, indoctrinated children were willing to kill their elders without not hesitation.
Kids indoctrinated by the Green movement will be willing to pull the plug, stop research and even many follow the extremism of Ingrid , in name to save Earth .
Co-founder and president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
Opposes animal testing, even for research that is aimed at finding cures to life-threatening diseases
Has openly declared that she wants an epidemic to strike the U.S.
Has lent both vocal and financial support to the domestic terrorist organization the Animal Liberation Front
Defends bestiality
“I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.”Newkirk and PETA oppose all animal testing, regardless of its purpose or context. Says Newkirk, “Even if animal tests produced a cure for AIDS, we’d be against it.” Thus she has criticized such organizations as the Pediatric AIDS Foundation, the March of Dimes, and the American Cancer Society for using laboratory animals in research aimed at finding treatments for various diseases. When asked if she would oppose an experiment on 5,000 rats if it were to result in a cure for AIDS, Newkirk replied: “Would you be opposed to experiments on your daughter if you knew it would save fifty million people?”
Ingrid Newkirk is the President of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), the largest animals rights organization in the world. Says Newkirk, “Probably everything we [PETA] do is a publicity stunt…. [W]e are not here to gather members, to please, to placate, to make friends. We’re here to hold the radical line.”
Newkirk and PETA have lent both vocal and financial support to the Animal Liberation Front (ALF), a domestic terrorist organization whose acts of vandalism and violence are carried out in the name of animal rights. In her 1992 book Free the Animals! The Untold Story of the U.S. Animal Liberation Front and Its Founder, ‘Valerie,’ Newkirk writes:
“The ALF has, over the years, trusted People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) to receive copies of the evidence of wrongdoing … I have also become somewhat used to jumping on a plane with copies of freshly purloined documents and hurriedly calling news conferences to discuss the ALF’s findings.”
During the 1995 trial of ALF activist Rod Coronado, U.S. Attorney Michael Dettmer revealed that Newkirk had pre-arranged to have Coronado provide her with stolen documents and a videotape of Coronado’s arson attack on an animal-research facility at Michigan State University.
In her “Author’s Note” for Free the Animals, Newkirk offers vocal support to ALF’s terrorist efforts:
“Today’s liberationists know that the ice has been broken. Television and newspaper stories have shown the extent of the suffering, over and over again. People know that there are kind alternatives to every cruel thing, from veggie burgers and ‘pleather’ to virtual organs. Perhaps that’s why the ‘new ALF’ has lost patience with the foot draggers and spends scant time explaining. Determined to cause economic injury to the exploiters, ALF members burn down their emptied buildings and smash their vehicles to smithereens. Perhaps, after reading this book, you will find that you cannot blame them.”
Inspired by ethics professor Peter Singer’s book Animal Liberation, Newkirk and fellow animal activist Alex Pacheco founded PETA in 1980. Echoing Singer’s defense of bestiality, Newkirk states:
“If a girl gets sexual pleasure from riding a horse, does the horse suffer? If not, who cares? If you French kiss your dog and he or she thinks it’s great, is it wrong? We believe all exploitation and abuse is wrong. If it isn’t exploitation and abuse, it may not be wrong.”
“When it comes to feelings such as pain, fear, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy,” says Newkirk. This moral equivalence not only fuses PETA’s public campaigns, but also leads the organization to forge alliances with animal rights extremists and domestic terrorist outfits. Newkirk herself has advocated the burning of animal research facilities, stating, “I wish we all would get up and go into the labs and take the animals out or burn them down.”
Q: What is the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement?
VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It’s a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We’re not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.
We don’t carry on about how the human race has shown itself to be a greedy, amoral parasite on the once-healthy face of this planet. That type of negativity offers no solution to the inexorable horrors which human activity is causing.
Rather, The Movement presents an encouraging alternative to the callous exploitation and wholesale destruction of Earth’s ecology.
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.
When every human chooses to stop breeding, 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.
Graphic by Nina Paley
Colorized by Aaron Hackmann
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Q: Are you really serious?
We’re really vehement.
Many see humor in The Movement and think we can’t be serious about voluntary human extinction, but in spite of the seriousness of both situation and movement, there’s room for humor. In fact, without humor, Earth’s condition gets unbearably depressing — a little levity eases the gravity.
True, wildlife rapidly going extinct and tens of thousands of children dying each day are not laughing matters, but neither laughing nor bemoaning will change what’s happening. We may as well have some fun as we work and play toward a better world.
Besides, returning Earth to its natural splendor and ending needless suffering of humanity are happy thoughts — no sense moping around in gloom and doom.
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Q: Do Volunteers expect to be successful?
VHEMT Volunteers are realistic. We know we’ll never see the day there are no human beings on the planet. Ours is a long-range goal.
It has been suggested that there are only two chances of everyone volunteering to stop breeding: slim and none. The odds may be against preserving life on Earth, but the decision to stop reproducing is still the morally correct one. Indeed, the likelihood of our failure to avoid the massive die off which humanity is engineering is a very good reason to not sentence another of us to life. The future isn’t what it used to be.
Even if our chances of succeeding were only one in a hundred, we would have to try. Giving up and allowing humanity to take its course is unconscionable. There is far too much at stake.
The Movement may be considered a success each time one more of us volunteers to breed no more.
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Q: Does VHEMT have any enemies?
After we’ve seen a few hundred TV dramas where the good guy kicks the bad guy’s butt, it’s tempting to look at the real world with this same knee jerk, zero-sum mentality. We might look for an enemy to attack when championing our righteous cause, but in reality our enemy doesn’t have a butt to kick.
In the end, the real “enemies” are human greed, ignorance, and oppression. We can achieve more by promoting generosity, awareness, and freedom than we can by vainly kicking at a buttless foe.
Great progress will be made toward improving the quality of life on Earth by countering greed with responsibility, ignorance with education, and oppression with freedom.
Instead of meeting the bad guys in the street at high noon and shooting it out, why not invite them into the saloon to work things out?
Examples of unity.
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Q: What is the official position of VHEMT?
Since the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement isn’t alive with a brain or a mouth, it can’t take positions or have opinions. It can’t get into arguments, tell people what to do and think, nor get punched for doing so.
Voluntary human extinction is simply a concept to be added to existing belief systems, not a complex code of behavior to live by. No committee of Movement shakers decides what position everyone else should take.
Most Volunteers subscribe to the philosophy embodied in the motto “May we live long and die out”, but if someone doesn’t want to live long that’s their business. Really, the only action required for becoming a VHEMT Volunteer or Supporter is not adding another human being to the population. A couple could conceivably be expecting and decide to become VHEMT. That new human would be the last one they produced. VHEMT Supporters are not necessarily in favor of human extinction, but agree that no more of us should be created at this time.
Volunteers are so diverse in religious, political, and philosophical views that it would be divisive to begin formulating official Movement positions. Beware of dogmas. We speak with our own voices.
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Q: When and how did VHEMT start?
Roots of VHEMT run as deep as human history. Potential for a voluntary human extinction movement has been around for as long as humans have.
When Ice Age humans hunted animals to extinction, at least one of the Neanderdunces among them must have grunted in bewilderment. As the Fertile Crescent became a barren desert, and the Cedars of Lebanon were sacrificed for temples, someone must have thought, “this bodes ill.” When Romans fueled their empire by extracting resources from near and far, surely someone remarked, “Humanus non gratis,” or words to that effect. Someone had to get the idea that the planet would be better off without this busy horde.
Someone, that is, besides the middle-eastern god, Yahweh/Jehovah/Allah. Tradition tells how, in prehistoric times, this creator-god realized his mistake in making humans and was going to flush us from the system, but in a weak moment he spared one breeding family. Oops! (Genesis 6: 1-22).
The Story of Atrahasis, an earlier Sumerian myth recorded in Babylonian text, tells of multiple gods conspiring to rid Earth of the bothersome creatures they had molded out of clay. One sneaky god warns a human to build a boat before the flood, and the rest is our history.
We call The Movement VHEMT, but it’s undoubtedly been given other names throughout history. None have been recorded, as far as we know.
There must be millions of people around the world who are independently arriving at the same conclusion. A large portion of today’s Volunteers were vehement extinctionists before they learned of the title “VHEMT”.
The true origins of The Movement can be found in the natural abundance of love and logic within each one of us. Our in-born sense of justice guides us to make the responsible choice.
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Q: Who is the founder?
No one person is the founder of VHEMT. Les U. Knight gave the name “Voluntary Human Extinction Movement” to a philosophy or worldview which has existed for as long as humans have been sapient. It’s an awareness which has been arrived at independently in many places throughout history, but had become lost amid societies’ pronatalism.
Like millions of other people, Les followed a simple train of logic, guided by love, and arrived at the conclusion that Gaia would be better off without humans. He could be considered the finder, having identified The Movement by giving it a name, though each of us finds the truth for ourselves.
Although Les has become known internationally as a spokesperson for The Movement, no one can speak for all VHEMT Volunteers. There is no official position on issues beyond what is implied in the name of The Movement.
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Q: We have children. Can we still join?
Today’s children are tomorrow’s destiny. Our children have the potential for achieving the awareness needed to reverse civilization’s direction and begin restoring Earth’s biosphere. Most could use our help in realizing their full potentials.
Naturally you’re welcome to join, and you won’t be alone. When people gain the VHEMT perspective, they decide to add no more to the existing human family. They don’t pressure their children to give them grandchildren and might encourage them to make a responsible choice with their fertility.
There is no reason to feel guilty about the past. Guilt doesn’t lead to positive solutions. Being VHEMT has nothing to do with the past. It’s the future of life on Earth that Volunteers want to preserve.
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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.
The idea of all of us voluntarily refraining from procreation is often dismissed without much consideration. These examples are considered elsewhere at this site:
“People are going to have sex, you can’t stop that.”
“It’s a human instinct to breed.”
“But I just love babies.”
“Some of us should reproduce because we’re better than others.”
“Humans are a part of Nature.”
And so on.
However, if any of us thinks about the situation long enough, and makes the effort to work through those socially-instilled blocks to clear thinking, we will arrive at virtually the same conclusion: we should voluntarily phase ourselves out for the good of humanity and planet.
VHEMT is naturally in opposition to involuntary extinction of any species, as well as any efforts encouraging human extermination. There are presently concerted efforts supporting both of these horrors. For example:
Production and use of weapons.
Toxin production, such as petrochemical and nuclear.
Exploitation of natural and human resources.
Promotion of reproductive fascism.
And so on.
The above could be called the Terrorist Human Extermination Movement (THEM), but that’s labeling and encourages a “Them or Us” attitude.
VHEMT is opposed to what these people are doing, but it’s doubtful any would bother to return the favor. Really, there isn’t much point in opposing a voluntary movement which harms none and benefits all.
I think voluntary human extinction is misguided or worse.
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Q: How do I join?
Being VHEMT is a state of mind. All you have to do to join is make the choice to refrain from further reproduction. For some, this is an easy decision to make. For others, it’s a moot issue. But for many, joining The Movement means making a monumental personal sacrifice.
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is not an organization, so no membership dues go to officials in offices. We are millions of individuals, each doing what we feel is best. Join with other VHEMT Volunteers and Supporters.
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Latest About The Movement
The VHEMT web site has been available to visitors since July 1996. People all over the globe are visiting these pages, with translations in several languages. They say “There’s nothing more powerful as an idea whose time has come.” The Movement certainly has momentum, if that counts as powerful.
More impetus was added to our momentum on September 5, 2009, when the Discovery Channel’s Focus Earth included the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement’s solution in their episode about over population. Bob Woodruff’s interview of Les Knight and Nina Paley may be viewed online: “No More Children.”
Bob Woodruff discusses human breeding with Les Knight in Portland, Oregon
For Earth Day 2009, Laura Ingraham hosted Les on her syndicated radio program in advance of Steven Milloy, author of Green Hell: How Environmentalists Plan to Control Your Life and What You Can Do to Stop Them. No, it’s not intended to be a parody.
On July 3, 2008 in a half-hour radio broadcast, Stephanie Potter interviewed Les about VHEMT. Archived at: The Recovery Zone.
In Time magazine’s number one non-fiction book of 2007, The World Without Us, Alan Weisman generously presents the VHEMT perspective.
A November 16, 2005 article in SF Gate – the San Francisco Chronicle online – by Gregory Dicum: “GREEN Maybe None: Is having a child – even one – environmentally destructive?” was picked up by UPI, appearing in many newspapers.
From there, quite a few radio talk shows invited Les to be interviewed and sometimes take calls from listeners. Les was a guest on “FOX News Live With Alan Colmes” radio show on November 29th, 2005. Alan also hosted Les for two Earth Day shows, April 27, 2004, and April 22, 2005, receiving calls from across North America. Les was on Alan’s show again on February 2, 2009.
On December 2, 2005, an MSNBC TV program, The Situation with Tucker Carlson, featured Les in a segment entitled, “Taking on the [Voluntary] Human Extinction Movement”. Although Tucker wasn’t fully in agreement with VHEMT, his questions allowed the main points to be shared with the audience. A transcript and video may be seen at their site. Tucker’s final comment: “I will say, that is the sickest thing I think I’ve ever heard, but you are one of the cheeriest guests we’ve ever had.?I don’t know how to–how the two fit together, but I appreciate you coming on. Thanks a lot.”
Selected articles, interviews of Les, mixed reviews, and so on may be seen at: Media Mentions
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A major goal of our web site is to advance the population-awareness movement, which seems to have become stalled, and may have slipped back to where it was more than 35 years ago. Progressive population awareness groups advocate a one-child average and two maximum, but few, if any, dare to advocate zero procreation. Environmental groups avoid the controversial topic, preferring to work on consequences of our excessive breeding. Scientists acknowledge population’s effects, but also decline to include it in their suggested solutions.
Several online forums for sharing and discussing ideas related to voluntary human extinction are available. One for VHEMT Volunteers and Supporters includes over 1,400 subscribers and another includes more than 4,000.
On April 8, 2010, French TV, Global Arte, broadcast a 2:16 minute anti-natalist, pro-planet video which included VHEMT. (in French)
“Les anti-natalité font leur buzz” 2:16 minute video
Giving a talk, “Thank you for not breeding”, on February 16th, 2010, Les presented the VHEMT concept at Oberlin College and Conservatory, sponsored by Oberlin Animal Rights.
Les participated in a panel titled,“Human Population Density: Patriarchy’s Influence, Positive Signs, and Reproductive Freedom.” at the 26th annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference in Eugene, Oregon March 9th, 2008. The panel also included Kelpie Wilson, Environmental Editor for TruthOut and author of Primal Tears, and Richard York, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon and co-editor of the journal Organization and Environment.
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