Sunday, March 15, 2009

Wow . . .

The University of Oregon School of Law recently held an Environment Law Public Interest Conference. People came from all over the world to attend seminars, learn about different environment law movements, and to be around other people with dreadlocks. Seriously, there were a lot of dreadlocks.

Inside there were lots of people and groups with little booths, each one in support of a different forest, creature, or cause. Of all the booths the only one that really stood out was the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEM). The VHEM is exactly what it sounds like: an organization whose purpose is to promote the dying out of the human race. Their argument is that we as humans have done a lot of damage to the Earth (which is true), and the only way to let Earth fully recover from our abuse is for people to die out. Completely.

The man at the booth was nice, and gave us complementary buttons and stickers that read "Thank You For Not Breeding." Certain people should definitely be encouraged not to breed, and maybe we need to be careful about depleting our natural resources. But there are more effective ways of accomplishing these goals than telling people we need to extinctify ourselves. 

Take a walk around their website and tell me what you think. Should we really die out so that we can secure a happy future for baby condors?