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.