VHEMT -- a volunteer

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 > From: http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert (robert)
 > Date: Mon  Jul 27,  9:52am
 > 
 >  > From: "Les U. Knight" <http://www.vhemt.org/~les>
 >  > Date: Sat  Jul 25,  2:55pm
 >  >
 >  > Hello Robert,
 >  > 
 >  > Here's the request:
 > 
 > Yes, I'll respond.
 > 
 >  > >>My name is Jonathan Rauch and I'm a writer based in Washington, now
 >  > beginning work on an article for The Economist, the British weekly
 >  > newsmagazine, about the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. The article
 >  > will appear in the annual Christmas issue, which specializes in articles on
 >  > unusual and thought-provoking subjects. We think readers will find
 >  > voluntary human extinction to be just such a subject: initally peculiar
 >  > but, on further reflection, raising questions that many Economist readers
 >  > would otherwise never think to ask (Why _should_ there be a next
 >  > generation? Why allow nature to choose the time of our departure for us?
 >  > Are humans justified in rating their value above other species?).
 >  > 
 >  > I would like to know more about both the idea and the people who support
 >  > it. Les Knight has been kind enough to grant me an interview, and to post
 >  > this message. I'd be grateful to anyone who would email me at
 >  > http://www.brook.edu/~jrauch and say a paragraph or two about why you do (or don't)
 >  > support the idea of voluntary human extinction, how you volunteer or
 >  > contribute, how you came to the idea, etc.
 >  > 
 >  > Moreover, if you'd be willing to be interviewed by telephone, please tell
 >  > me that as well. I'd like to talk to a varied selection.
 >  > 
 >  > Many thanks,
 >  > 
 >  > Jon Rauch<<

Getting a vasectomy was the best and more important life decision I've
ever made.  I got it when I was 30, but wish I had got it earlier just for
the benefit of my partner.  Even before I ordered my first copy of These
Exit Times (the newsletter of VHEMT) in 1989 through Factsheet 5, I
believed that overpopulation was a problem.  After I read TET, I realized
that there could be an alternative to having less -- having none.
Although the world's population will conservatively grow to 8 billion
people and the environment will be severely affected, the only long-term
solution to the survival of the world's species and the environment in
general is for the human race to choose to eliminate itself.  I believe
that through my very tiny contribution of choosing "none", this goal can
be achieved (in about 900 years).

I'd be willing to talk on the phone, but only at home, not at my work place.
(In this case, call me at work (number below) and we can negotiate a time.)