movement for human extinction

i saw the logo of this group about a decade ago in an environmental magazine. i don't even know if there's a real group behind it but i now totally subscribe to this proposition. there is no excuse for delaying, we humans must go.

i saw this sci-fi b-movie once, where an alien race tried to exterminate humans because we propagated unchecked to the detriment of other species, which by definition makes us a virus!

and it's true, all the other land animals that have not died out already are now either in reserves and zoos or are in ranches and farms. either for display or for food.

humans, just one specie, are already exploiting earth beyond it's carrying capacity, beyond it's capability to replenish itself. the world was better off during the time of the giant reptiles.

all our great achievements have not been earth friendly - nuclear technology, industry, engineering, fisheries, animal breeding, agriculture - with what human population is today, even primitive activities won't be sustainable anymore. just imagine close to seven billion humans hunting and gathering!

it's denial of reality if we continue to hold on to the hope that we could reverse all the destruction we have wrought on the planet's ecosystems. how could we expect us to expand the remaining forest covers and mangroves when we've just put a hole in the ozone layer for heaven's sake!

and what's mind boggling is that with all these anthropocentric exploitation and destruction of nature, majority of the ever growing human population has perpetually lived in fear and want! we have not even taken care of ourselves!

look at agriculture for example - with it we altered natural biodiverse ecosystems for the production of favored crop species needed for human consumption - but agricultural lands are now being planted with non-food crops or are being converted for industrial, residential, recreational or military use! we have selfishly appropriated earth's communal resources for our own but we could not even protect and share it between ourselves!

we don’t even see our common humanity. the female half of the population is still struggling for equality after all of human existence. slavery existed way before the great established religions but we had agreed to abolish it only on 1926! - and the damned practice persists today. wars continue to be waged on ethnic, racial, religious, national, political and ideological grounds.

natural selection developed us from apes, and from us evolved corporations. the fittest of the fittest, these creatures have rights equal to the human person, own vast resources and wealth, have massive political clout and they could live for hundreds of years. in case you don’t know it, corporations are the new dinosaurs!

it’s so easy to say that everything’s gonna be alright, there are enough resources, population is not the problem, redistribution is, and we’ll achieve that with the inevitable global social revolution and the coming new age of enlightenment and harmony, when everyone has accepted the love of the one true gender free god, where human rights and the rule of law reign supreme - but that’s plain bull and we all know it.

we are steadily using up the resources with which the future generations are to build this utopian goal with. will the next generation go against millennia of human nature and share among themselves the insufficient amount of potable water, arable land, timber, clean air - that we are leaving them with? i don’t think so.

and why is there a next generation? so that people could have grandchildren! because people don't know how to use the calendar! to satisfy maternal instinct! because it's a sin to copulate outside the framework of conception! so that the family name would continue! because of love! because there might be future presidents among them! for the greater glory of god! because for all the heights of reason that the human mind have scaled we cannot seem to control our baser instincts!

and for all these ridiculous reasons we have imposed our destructive and greedy existence into this world.

what is so great about human beings? NONE! what is so great about being human? NONE!

then, I move that we stop breeding and phase out human existence for our sake and for all other remaining living beings. we had our chance of making this world a better place but we failed. our extinction will make way for the evolution of a wiser and kinder species of earthlings.

blue

wala akong kanang pangil. tinanggal ito ng dentista nuong high school ako dahil sungki ang tubo nito. hindi naging madali ang paghihiwalay namin ng aking pangil, kinailangang tungkabin muna ng dentista ito gamit ang isang parang screwdriver na instrumento bago ito sapilitang bunutin ng plais niyang maya't maya ang pagdulas ng kapit na kinabahan akong baka ikabulag ko pa ang sungking pangil na yon. minor surgery ata ang ginawa sa akin dahil hindi naman gumagalaw yong pangil at di rin siya bulok.

sa totoo lang wala akong ngiping nabulok, at yon mismo ang naging problema nung aking kanang pangil, lalabas na siya pero kapit na kapit pa ang mga temporary na dapat niyang palitan kaya sa gilagid ko na lang siya lumabas sa taas ng ibang ngipin, kaya parang parati akong naka-ismid.

sobrang alaga kasi sa ngipin ko nuong bata pa ako, kaya antitibay ng temporary, at kaya na rin baku-bako ang mga ngipin ko ngayon. wala namang puwang o siwang sa dapat na kinalagyan ng aking pangil dahil nagsiksikan din ang mga permanente sa lugar nito, pero hindi pantay ang aking labi dahil sa kakulangan ng pangil sa kanan.

medyo tricky ding sipilyuhan ang sungki kong pangil na yon dahil kailangang itaas ko ng husto ang aking labi para maabot ito ng maigi. sa ganitong pagkakataas ng aking labi habang ako'y nagsisipilyo sa harap ng salamin naging palaisipan sa akin kung bakit puti ang bula ng tutpeys na asul. kung hindi sana naubusan ng colgate noon sa tindahan ay wala sanang problema dahil ni minsan sa akin pang maikling buhay noon ay hindi naging asul ang bula ng tutpeys na puti.

naging mailap sa akin ang sagot sa tanong na ito, natungkab at nabunot na lang ang sungking pangil ay puros pagpapatibay ng mga shells at chalk lamang ang natutunan ko mula sa mga patalastas ng colgate at puro ngitian at flying kiss naman sa close-up. nagawan ko pa nga ng tula minsan yan, ang huling linya ay 'o payapa sana ang mundo kung asul ang bula ng tutpeys na blue'.

eh di tumanda na ako ng husto, pagkatapos ng 20 taon ay nakapag-reunion na rin kaming iilan sa mga magkakaklase nuong may sungki pa ako nuong elementarya. isa sa mga andon ay si jazer na matagal nawala dahil nagtrabahong flight attendant (formerly called stewardess during a more potitically incorrect or unpolitically correct time) na base sa kuwait.

sa pagtext ko sa kanya para tanungin kung kumusta siya (kumusta buhay? do you like the things that life is showing you? where are you going to? do you know?) ay naisama ko na ring tanungin kung bakit asul ang langit at kung bakit puti ang bula ng tutpeys na blue. tinanong ko na rin ata kung kelan ang independence day ng vietnam.

nakalimutan ko na if she knew where she was going to pero nakakatuwang isipin na kaklase ko nuong me sungking pangil pa ako ang sa wakas nakapagbigay sa kin ng kasagutang:

"ang bula ng tutpeys na blue ay sanhi ng SLS o sodium laureth sulfate n cya ding sangkap ng soap o shampoo n d apektado ng colorant. ang kemikal n ito ay napabalitang nkkcancer subalit hindi ito ang siyang sangkap n nkklinis kaya't wala nito ang washing machine detergents.'

'Ang SLS ay sagana sa sabong baretang panlaba produkto ng mga kapitalistang mapagsamantala s mga taga nayon n pinaniniwalang pag mas mabula ang labada, mas malinis"