We’ve known for some time that the eco-minded tend to think that humans are a bad thing. For example, there’s the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement:
That’s no joke, it is a real organization. What follows is something I thought was just a clever April Fools Joke, but sadly turns out to be only too real. So real in fact, it may be powerful enough to buzzkill all the effects of a Barry White album.
No, it isn’t an April fools joke. The website and the product is real, which you can see here.
They even have a distributor network, and unsurprisingly, the land of fruits and nuts is ground zero.
The caption for the polar bear wrapper reads:
POLAR BEAR
An international icon of global warming, the polar bear is going extinct as the Arctic sea ice melts beneath its feet because of the greenhouse gas emissions of 7 billion people — especially those in high-consumption nations like the United States. The bear was put on the U.S. endangered species list in 2008.
Some of the other wrappers are hilarious here’s another:
DWARF SEAHORSE
This inch-tall, curly-tailed fish occurs only in shallow seagrass areas in the Gulf of Mexico, along the Atlantic Coast of Florida and in the Caribbean. Unfortunately, as the Gulf gets more crowded and industrialized, this seahorse faces more threats to its existence. Widespread loss of seagrass habitat due to pollution, boat damage and global war.
Maybe we could get Josh to come up with some condom wrapper art for the climate skeptic movement.
I’m thinking of some slogans like:
- Party like its 1999 (before GISS adjustments).
- Hot times ahead – NOT!
- My head just exploded! Romm bam, thank you ma’am!
- The heat is missing, and it’s a travesty!
- Use before hiding the decline
Discretion, please, in comments – Anthony
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Anthony, may I suggest ; “Use to hide decline”
Pass the Kool-Aid!
Picturing a dwarf seahorse is condom enough for me.
Is that a Hockey Stick in your pants or are you just pleased to see me?
Birth rates among liberals (leftists) are at 1.3 births per couple. Among Conservative (right Leaning) is 2.7 children per couple. I did the math on this and it does not speak well for leftists.
In 4 generations 100K leftists will shrink to about 18,000 people per generation. In the same time the right leaning people will swell to 330.000 people per generation. (making lots of assumptions)
In 4 generations the right leaning pro reproduction people will out number the leftists by 18:1.
In effect, the leftists are committing social suicide. I say don’t get in their way. Let us just make sure that their diseased POV does not infect the rest of the world.
The faster we can get CAGW believers to extinctify themselves, the better off we all will be (luxuriating in a world rich with CO2, enjoying the warm, tropical beaches of the NWT and Baffin Island … … … ).
Let’s all do our part!!
Mark H.
Cover your Hockey Stick!
I can’t think of anything funny that would not be snipped! I’ve already erased at least 10 comments that were waaayyy over the top.
OK Tiny, good one, you beat me to it!
Avoid Terran Venus–cover your…
How about a porcupine packet – containing real spines for that lacerating feel.
Read: The Empty Cradle by Philip Longman, regular contributor to The Economist.
You math is great, but you forgot to factor in the public education system.
It is always best to lead by example. I very much hope that proponents of this cause will show us the way as quickly as possible.
Anthropophobia made easy…
Paul, that reminds me of the scenario portrayed in “Idiocracy”. Now obviously, conservatives aren’t idiots, but I wouldn’t mind smoking some Tarlingtons while drinking my Brawndo. And I would totally vote for Camacho, we could use a president with a little more testosterone.
VHEMT are absurd. They want mankind to disappear because we’re bad. But any species willing to sacrifice itself is of course good. Therefore if we decided to commit mass suicide we’d be doing something wrong. Back to square one.
STI, UHI, both spreading like a virus.
Fiddle with your stats and you’ll go blind.
Adjusting your stats in public could lead to arrest… eventually
Protect your email or she won’t respect you in the morning.
Be a big Mann and cover up… whatever needs covering.
Watch where you’re sticking that Stevenson’s screen.
“A rubber a day, keeps humanity away.”
I still prefer “Live Long and Prosper”… it’s the Vulcan way.
It’s the global war on sea grass that bothers me.
this seahorse faces more threats to its existence…….
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Florida Bay is ~1000 sq miles…
…male dwarf seahorses need ~4 sq ft of territory, females don’t care
that gives habitat for ~7 million dwarf sea horses
Given that, as far as we know, humans are the only intelligent technological life in the universe – then pushing for extinction becomes a whole lot bigger issue than saving the planet.
Suppose that, in fact, planets with biospheres are relatively common in our corner of the galaxy, but nowhere does intelligent life – much less advanced technological life – evolve. Then surely, a simple argument based on preserving scarcity, would be to preserve the human race first. Unless of course, voluntary euthanasia becomes our only solution to the unbearable lonliness that may befall our distant descendants.
If I really had nothing better to do, I would go to an Earth Day event with a VHEM sign-up form. To make it more fun, I’d bring along somebody to film with a flip-cam. This could make great footage.
VHEMT
Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, The
I want my Hockey Stick Jollies
Is that a sharp uptick in your trend?
Man-made Global Hots
Find the Missing Hot Spot
I’ll be Polar if you’re Bare