What is the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement?
VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It’s a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We’re not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.
We don’t carry on about how the human race has shown itself to be a greedy, amoral parasite on the once-healthy face of this planet. That type of negativity offers no solution to the inexorable horrors which human activity is causing.
Rather, The Movement presents an encouraging alternative to the callous exploitation and wholesale destruction of Earth’s ecology.
As VHEMT Volunteers know, the hopeful alternative to the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals is the voluntary extinction of one species: Homo sapiens...us.
Each time another one of us decides to not add another one of us to the burgeoning billions already squatting on this ravaged planet, another ray of hope shines through the gloom.
When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth’s biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, evolve (if they believe in evolution), and will perhaps pass away, as so many of Nature’s “experiments” have done throughout the eons.
It’s going to take all of us going.
The Movement is voluntary. We are promoting reproductive freedom, not “population control”.
The Movement is life-affirming and will benefit all life. We are not advocating suicide, nor an increase in human deaths.
The Movement is pro-child. Every existing child deserves a good life.
The Movement is pro-parent. Existing children are in need of good parents.
The Movement is opposed to bad stuff.
If you still feel that voluntarily phasing out the human race is a mistake, or if you have unanswered questions after reading this site, or would just like to comment, please feel free to contact us or post a message. Other Volunteers and Supporters may respond to your message, and answer your questions in a variety of ways.