Tucker Carlson vs. The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement

[taintedlunch]

I think I've heard it all now, but I'm surprised I haven't heard more of this.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10339030/

Now how exactly do they go about recruiting members?

I hope these people are putting away money for their children's therapy...

[Cam63]

'Seems pretty logical for a religious nut to me.

[jetfire85]

It's like Ra's without the cape or the hot daughters.

[The Beast Of Yucca Flats]

"No, no. We're pro-children once the child is here. What we're against is conception."





Wrong in more ways than can be counted.

[Screwtape]

The nice thing is that our grandchildren won't have to deal with these people.

[PatrickG]

I dunno. I think the group has some points.

I doubt they'd ever succeed... The need to breed is hardwired into us.

But I rather like the idea of the world ending without anybody dying of anything other than natural causes. The last person on earth cleans their house, sets a needle down on a record playing some old imperialist march, drinks a cup of hot tea, visits the graves of their loved ones and dies quietly in his/her sleep.

No apocalypse. No war. No starving people in bomb shelters. No judgment. Just a sigh that mirrors the first breath of the first human, exhaling in perfect harmony with the first breath ever inhaled and like a roman candle, the universe fades to black and the credits roll.

It will never happen but it's a sweet and wistful dream.

[Screwtape]

I prefer the apocalypse, personally. Blood and thunder all the way.

[El Santo]

It's like Ra's without the cape or the hot daughters.

...or the eloquence, or the dignity, or the threat rating...

[TCJohnson]

Unfortunately the man is right. With the rate the human race is growing, the planet can't support us in a few generations. There will either be a war to wipe out a portion of the population, or there is going to be famine and disease.

[the4thpip]

Unfortunately the man is right. With the rate the human race is growing, the planet can't support us in a few generations. There will either be a war to wipe out a portion of the population, or there is going to be famine and disease.
Didn't Bush promise settlement on Mars? :confused:

[Dry Observer]

Well, that's the classic option. Cheap spaceflight. Or possibly sustainable economics for the entire species. Or both.

Oddly enough, I'm in the mountains of North Carolina, apparently near one of the most active sustainable development academic programs in the country.

Ralph

[MacQuarrie]

Unfortunately the man is right. With the rate the human race is growing, the planet can't support us in a few generations. There will either be a war to wipe out a portion of the population, or there is going to be famine and disease.
Within the next 20 to 30 years, world population will begin to decline. The birth rate has been below replacement level in the US and Europe for decades, and is declining in developing nations at a steady pace. Earlier this year, Germany was running ad campaigns telling people to hurry up and have kids; it's your patriotic duty to produce the next generation, because there aren't enough people being born to pay for the current generation's retirement.

And there's already famine and disease, but they have almost nothing to do with population. It's expected that AIDS could wipe out close to half the population of some countries in Africa.

By 2030 there will be alarmist headlines about the dwindling human race. Wait and see. "The Birth Dearth" is the next big panic.

[PatrickG]

That's not such a huge problem domestically, Mac, if not for the hole we dug ourselves by spending money intended for social security.

[Melissa]

The nice thing is that our grandchildren won't have to deal with these people.

I think your logic is flawed here. They recruit members, they don't breed them.

[The Xenos]

Yeah, I was thinking of Ra's too. Knives and Legato too. Though these guys are nowhere near as cool. I gotta admit, I'm kinda rooting for the extincion of the human race myself. Not that I'd take any steps toward it, I'm just looking at us and thinking it would be a much more peaceful world without us.

Of course these guys don't quite seem as extreme. I will say that I honestly think people really really really need to think more about cutting down the population. We are choking not only the planet, but our ourselves. This whole idea of raising a big fdamily of your own kids is just not working any more. Government and church leaders really should realize this and start promoting smaller familites and maybe even adoption instead of pegnancy.

Then again them are some strong ugrges to surpress. Lord know it was around this time of year that I went through a break up with a girl I was crazy about and wanted that whole family thing with.

-Xenos

[The Mirrorball Man]

The problem is, philosophically speaking, the world wouldn't exist without humans. It would just be. As a concept, it would be erased from existence.

[Pixies Chick]

The problem is, philosophically speaking, the world wouldn't exist without humans. It would just be. As a concept, it would be erased from existence.

As long as the rotten neighbors kids are gone with it, I can accept that.

[f. chong rutherford]

I think I've heard it all now, but I'm surprised I haven't heard more of this.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10339030/

Now how exactly do they go about recruiting members?

I hope these people are putting away money for their children's therapy...

Man, it's like the guy or the people who run his show aren't even trying any more. Ever since Jon Stewart, it's been a downward spiral for the guy. This is sensationalism disguised as news or news forum. Everything that's going on in the world, and his show runners choose to publicize a small movement so Tucker can feel some moral outrage. We live in strange times when 'The Colbert Report' seems to have more substance than the shows it mocks.

[Ed Cunard]

Man, it's like the guy or the people who run his show aren't even trying any more. Ever since Jon Stewart, it's been a downward spiral for the guy. This is sensationalism disguised as news or news forum. Everything that's going on in the world, and his show runners choose to publicize a small movement so Tucker can feel some moral outrage. We live in strange times when 'The Colbert Report' seems to have more substance than the shows it mocks.

I'm just pissed that he's set the bow tie back a few years--I was really waiting for it to make a comeback.

[f. chong rutherford]

I'm just pissed that he's set the bow tie back a few years--I was really waiting for it to make a comeback.

I'm all about taking the bow-tie back. But I don't know how to tie one. It's as if someone is telling me to move to the front of the bus, but I don't know how to sit down, and then some other guy is all screaming, while some old dude let's his cart go and slams me in the ankle. So then I fall down, the bus driver is screaming exact change, and my glasses fall off just like Velma in Scooby Doo. You know what I'm saying?

[Ed Cunard]

I'm all about taking the bow-tie back. But I don't know how to tie one. It's as if someone is telling me to move to the front of the bus, but I don't know how to sit down, and then some other guy is all screaming, while some old dude let's his cart go and slams me in the ankle. So then I fall down, the bus driver is screaming exact change, and my glasses fall off just like Velma in Scooby Doo. You know what I'm saying?

Carslon wears a clip-on?

The bus driver has some neat gift for having his words turn into metal currency when he gets all frothy?

That your public transit situation will be even funnier when you move away from NY?

[f. chong rutherford]

Carslon wears a clip-on?

The bus driver has some neat gift for having his words turn into metal currency when he gets all frothy?

That your public transit situation will be even funnier when you move away from NY?

THAT'S IT! I miss my car. Tucker Carlson makes me miss my car. That's why he is the jerk.