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
“If I had a premature extinction event, would you still respect me in the morning?”
MtK
They should all self terminate and save the condoms.
I want to comment but [self snip]’ and [self snip], and outrageously [self snip].
“Screw The Polar Bears!
(Sturgeon Generals Warning: This behavior is bloody hazardous to your health. Condoms will not protect you from polar bears.) ”
“If I said you had a beautiful Pacific Decadal Oscillator, would you hold it against me?”
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement is one of the few environmental organizations I respect because they are one of the few who try to live by their convictions. Many young environmentalists should consider joining them and taking the pledge, and the surgery.
Is it just me or does anyone else find the humor in the fact that they found a guy named Peet to design condoms.
Still think this is April Fools… no one is getting fooled on April 1st anymore, so they start earlier this year. We have this, Arnie’s Twins sequal with Eddie Murphy as the third child, and Anonymous saying they’ll turn off the internet on 31st.
Being maketed for greenies – I trust they’re recyclable.
Unlike the greenie versions of condoms, the skeptic versions need have no concerns about sustainability.
This may be off topic, as if anything can be off-topic in a thread about Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, but I recently noticed that it is perfectly OK for Vegans to breast feed or even be cannibals; perhaps VHEMT should consider a recycling program.
Apparently the ‘Voluntary Human Extinction Movement’ have never seen the bar code on a condom! Why? they don’t roll ’em back far enough!
(Heh their dicks are too small, but it’s okay, they’re busy re-adjusting their TSI).
IJim G says:
March 30, 2012 at 5:16 pm
“Is it just me or does anyone else find the humor in the fact that they found a guy named Peet to design condoms.”
Nah. You’re not the only one, but it was weak. Now if the condoms had been designed by Shorty Peters or Richard Peters or Drew P. Peters…
(Hope I didn’t cross the line. I’ve only been snipped once, and I believe that was 3+ years ago.)
Seahorses are live bearers and it’s actually the male that gives birth. I wonder what kinda condom that is.
Star Trek Epsiode 23, Season 1, Stardate: 3192.1: “A Taste of Armageddon”
Spock realizes that the war is being fought by computers which calculate casualties and that the citizens who are declared “dead” are then required to report to disintegration chambers.
paddylol says:
March 30, 2012 at 3:26 pm
This is giving life to the Logan’s Run scenario. Everyone turns themselves in on their 65th birthday to be recycled except those who run to a safe area.
I don’t *have* to run — I’m armed…
I don’t mind the basic premis of “May we live long and die out” and I used to show the VHEMT logo on my blog. With the world fast being overrun with left-ard totalitarian minded extremist nutters and jihadists etc, it takes a braver and more hopeful soul than I to want to inflict such a place and future upon a child of my own loins especially when there are already so many existing children out there already suffering. So I do the sponsorship thing and care not that my own dna shall come to an end. It’s not that I see humankind as the enemy of the planet (far from it), but rather that these days I see it as a form of child abuse to procreate. Deem it also to be a protest. The Larry Norman song “only visiting this planet” also springs to mind.
Doc Hansen’s Warming Stimulators
Designed to concentrate warmth at the end by getting cooler further back.
Promotes control to prevent changes of the climate of your globes.
What a difference 40 years makes! Back in the day, big names like Sammy Davis Jr. cut songs like “Candy Man” and “People Tree”. The kids of the current generation get to enjoy movies where teenagers kill each other in government-sanctioned competitions. And now this VHEMT thing! Hopeful, tolerant, procreation-promoting music and movies would never see the light of day now! My kid tells me that our schools have not been a source of pro-CAGW propaganda. Hopefully, they will not promote VHEMT, either.
On the VHEMT.
John Wayne is quoted as saying; “Life is hard, It is even harder if you are stupid.”
Drain the lizard,
Wrap the lizard,
Pound the lizard,
Save a lizard.
Actually sounds more like an “exotic” cooking recipe. You know, we should just convince the eco-mentals that the time is too short, they must act quickly, play up the environmental damage from food production, and have them commit themselves to cannibalism. Volunteers only, consenting adults etc, no forcing of the consumption or of being the consumed. Where legally allowed of course, and for the sake of the planet they should lobby as needed until it is legalized.
Season liberally, for consistency’s sake.
Maybe we can convince them that mushy Green brains are a delicacy, also any they find with a Swiss cheese quality are double-plus good, have another serving.
It’d make for great bumper stickers:
Save The Planet!
Eat Me Now!
This is a genuine image from an advertisement which appeared beneath this article when I was viewing it:-
The gravestone of the EU eco movement? Sorry, given the context, just too funny not to share 🙂
tadchem says:
March 30, 2012 at 11:16 am
Slogans?
“Think of the Environment – Recycle This Bag”
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roaring laughing:-)
Are the condoms made out of polar bear skin?
If we are ever disposable, then we are always disposable, and some people and cooperatives believe we should have never have existed. Well, they are in the minority. We should be more concerned with individuals and cooperatives that suffer from delusions of grandeur, and in their superior judgment elect to denigrate individual dignity and devalue human life. There is also others who fear life, fear death, and choose to run amuck. There are certainly many villains that exist in our world to artificially enhance our native challenges.
Where’s that ozone hole when you need it?
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