Please Join VHEMT (pronounced vehement)

reformed_military

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Thu Nov-17-05 08:33 AM
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Please Join VHEMT (pronounced vehement)

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20051116-040458-3167r

Group wants to see humans extinct
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- Make no mistake about it, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement isn't anti-child, it's more like anti-human.

The VHE is dedicated to phasing out the human race in the interest of the health of the Earth, founder Les Knight told Wednesday's San Francisco Chronicle.

With 16,000 people born per hour and a current global population of 6.5 billion, there are already more than enough people on the planet, Knight said.

A 1994 study concluded a single person born in the 1990s would be responsible during a lifetime for 22 million pounds of liquid waste and 2.2 million pounds each of solid waste and atmospheric waste, the newspaper said. He or she will have a lifetime consumption of 4,000 barrels of oil, 1.5 million pounds of minerals and 62,000 pounds of animal products that will necessitate the slaughter of 2,000 animals.

"Wherever humans live, not much else lives," Knight said. "It isn't that we're evil and want to kill everything -- it's just how we live."

I am floored at facts about the amount of waste and consumption.

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ET Awful

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Thu Nov-17-05 08:38 AM
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1. I don't wanna be extinct. . . . I rather enjoy being tinct :)

Wouldn't it be wiser to just start really stressing conservation and responsibility?

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Mr.Green93

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Thu Nov-17-05 08:39 AM
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2. You go first.

and report back.

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drduffy

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Thu Nov-17-05 08:58 AM
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3. stop producing more kids

If each couple were limited to one child.....

but,
since that won't happen,

it will be like watching a mold grow in a petri dish........ eventually..... it all dies.

Just like us.

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Just Me

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Thu Nov-17-05 09:08 AM
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4. I'll opt for supporting family planning and free birth control.

Thanks, anyway.

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