Save the Planet, Join the "Voluntary Human Extinction Movement"

Is having a child -- even one -- environmentally destructive?

"We can't be breeding right now," says Les Knight. "It's obvious that the intentional creation of another [human being] by anyone anywhere can't be justified today."

Knight is the founder of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, an informal network of people dedicated to phasing out the human race in the interest of the health of the Earth. . .

"As long as there's one breeding couple," he says cheerfully, "we're in danger of being right back here again. Wherever humans live, not much else lives. It isn't that we're evil and want to kill everything -- it's just how we live."
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"It's not too likely that the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is going to succeed," he told me. "I don't think any of us are so naive as to think that 6.5 billion people are going to say, 'Yeah, let's stop breeding, this is great.' But it's still the right thing to do."

Will he begin by being one of the first volunteers to show his commitment to his 'project'?

Anyway with the widespread use of contraception and abortion, it seems that many have unwittingly already joined this 'movement'...From the land of fruits and nuts...