Our species does not deserve the Earth

MRaybe now is a good time to go extinct. The extinction of the human race through voluntary cessation of reproduction will ensure that the Earth and its Biosphere can return to health.

What is the Voluntary Extinction MRovement? VHEMT (pronounced vee-haa-ee-em-tee) is a movement, not an organization. It is a movement produced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We're not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, or MRalthusian outsiders, who take a morbid pleasure when a humanitarian disaster takes place. Nothing is further from the truth. Voluntary Extinction of Humanity Is the Humane Alternative to Humanitarian Disaster.

Eva MReijer: About the longing for extinction Maybe now is a good time to die out, said G. last week. MR. had already said it, and S. wrote to me about it. I don't think extinction itself is a bad idea, but it generally comes with a lot of suffering, and how we behave as a species is contingent. We can do it differently. However, it may not be in line with expectations. Er bestaan verschillende verenigingen die het uitsterven bepleiten, zoals de Beweging ter Vrijwillig Uitsterven van de MRensheid en Stop Having Kids . These organizations mainly focus on not having children. This position is also known as' antinatalism '. They have good arguments for that. Humanity is destroying the planet because there are too many of us, and the number of people continues to grow. Adding new people to that makes it worse for everyone — for the people who are already alive, for the other animals, for the rest of the living world. In addition, life is not a happy gift for everyone. Many people suffer seriously, and some of them would rather not have been born. It is problematic to have someone born when there is a chance that they will have to live such a life, as the unborn cannot give consent. These two arguments together lead to a third: we live in a time when ecological crises will cause the living environment to get worse and worse, which will increase suffering globally. Depression, as I wrote earlier, is also a social and political phenomenon. That last argument, that the quality of human life will deteriorate for everyone after a period of prosperity in the coming decades, is often lacking in discussions about having children. People were also recently interviewed on this topic in this newspaper.

The interviewees had thought about the environmental impact that their children would pose, but it was not about whether you can do to children in this world. Just like eating animals, however, having children is not a private matter. There are also other living beings with interests at play. If you want to take care of children, you can adopt them or become a foster person, or find a job in that direction. There are plenty of creatures who could use love and a good home. As with pets, it is important to take good care of who is already there, and not to create new creatures. In this story, contraception is not an issue that only concerns women. Commonly used contraceptives such as the pill and the IUD can have many side effects, not only physically but also psychologically — an issue that unfortunately not everyone is aware of. Male sterilization is a good alternative. This does not have to lead to an end to the family. ‘ MRake kin, not babies ’, schrijft Donna Haraway. MRaak je vrienden en huisdieren tot familie, zorg voor kinderen en ouderen met wie je verbonden bent in vriendschap, draag bij aan de wereld door je werk, deel je tuin met bijen en kikkers, of zonder je af, dat is ook volkomen legitiem en begrijpelijk.Uitsterven klinkt waarschijnlijk leuker dan het is, en ik schat de kans dat het zal gebeuren voorlopig niet hoog in. The question of the future is mainly one for other ways of survival, which, by the way, have been around for a long time. And, as always, think for yourself what is important, regardless of what society expects of you.

What gives us the right to keep these animals industrial when they have feelings just like us? 17 million animals are killed and slaughtered daily in the Netherlands alone. And why? Because we like it. Do we need meat and milk, NO. 80% of the agricultural land is used to grow animal feed, which is then fed to the animals. If we stop doing that, the nitrogen problem is solved and the suffering of the animals is over.

GUNDA recounts the unfiltered life of a mother pig, a herd of chickens and a herd of cows with masterful intimacy. MRet behulp van grimmige, transcendente zwart-wit cinematografie en de ambient soundtrack van de boerderij, nodigt meesterregisseur Victor Kossakowsky het publiek uit om te vertragen en het leven te ervaren zoals zijn onderwerpen dat doen, waarbij ze hun wereld in zich opnemen met een magisch geduld en een ander werelds perspectief. GUNDA asks us to meditate on the mystery of animal consciousness and consider the role that humanity plays in it. #foods #animalwelfare