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	VHEMT
		Phasing out the human race by voluntarily ceasing to breed will allow Earth's biosphere to return to good health.
		Are religions to blame for human over population?
		Why not move excess human population to colonies on other planets?
	www.vhemt.org (404 words)

	Extinction - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Extinction (or replacement) of species by a daughter species plays a key role in the punctuated equilibrium hypothesis of Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge.
		Because humans are a reasonably intelligent species capable of abstract thought, the views on the extinction of species other than Homo sapiens tend to be diverse, ranging from the preservative views of the most vehement eco-warrior to general apathy in the matter.
		However, it is seen that humans as a whole generally will act to protect against the extinction of species (primarily species that have a direct impact on human agriculture, such as cattle), if only to further preserve and perpetuate the human species.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/e/x/t/Extinction.html (2524 words)

	Extinction - Great Dying - Crystalinks
		Humans have been transporting animals and plants from one part of the world to another for thousands of years, sometimes deliberately (e.g., livestock released by sailors onto islands as a source of food) and sometimes accidentally (e.g., rats escaping from boats).
		Human extinction would be the extinction of the human species, Homo sapiens, whether on Earth (often as the result of a doomsday event) or from the entire universe, provided the species colonizes on other planets.
		Fear of human extinction is said to be one of the motivating factors of the environmentalist movements of the 20th and 21st century.
	www.crystalinks.com /extinction.html (3544 words)

	How likely is human extinction?
		Humans are a relatively recent phenomenon, jumping out of trees and striding across the land around 200 000 years ago.
		Mass extinction events, like the wiping out of dinosaurs 65m years ago, are impressive and dramatic, but account for only around 4% of now extinct species.
		The shortest telomere in humans occurs on the short arm of chromosome 17; most human cancers are affected by the loss of a tumour suppressor gene on this chromosome.
	www.meta-religion.com /Archaeology/Other/how_likely_is_human.htm (1106 words)

	Human extinction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Human extinction would be the extinction of the human species, Homo sapiens.
		Fear of human extinction is said to be one of the motivating factors of the environmentalist movements of the 20th and 21st centuries.
		A counter-argument to this is that humans are unique in their adaptive and technological capabilities, so it is not possible to draw reliable inferences about the probability of human extinction based on the past extinctions of other species.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Human_extinction (3404 words)

	Sixth Extinction
		The continued growth of human populations in all parts of the world daily encroaches on wild habitats, whether through the expansion of agricultural land, the building of towns and cities, or the transport infrastructure that joins them.
		As I said earlier, the growth of human population worldwide is encroaching on wild habitat, both for constructing villages, towns, and cities, and the infrastructure that goes with them, and for producing food, both plants and livestock.
		The documentation of known extinctions may seem to be the only way to demonstrate that we are in the midst of a biotic crisis, and this is what skeptics demand.
	www.well.com /user/davidu/sixthextinction.html (5196 words)

	Megafauna extinction — people theory
		Extinction of megafauna is almost a global phenomenon.
		The extinction of megafauna was most extreme in places where humans arrived as already skilled hunters.
		The other theory of megafauna extinction that is based on climate change must argue that extinction could have happened at almost any time in the last 50,000 years, whether the climate has been warm and wet or cold and dry, or any combination in between.
	www.amonline.net.au /factsheets/megafauna_extinction.htm (380 words)

	Voluntary Human Extinction: Necessary and Sufficient (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		It would, however, argue that the human species is an intolerable threat to every other living species (excluding perhaps cockroaches, squirrels, pigeons, rats, and a myriad fungi and bacteria), and that the cumulative value of all of these species outweighs that of Homo sapiens sapiens.
		Even if one is not convinced that total human extinction is a desirable goal to aim for, there is no valid reason to reject a reduced human population (both in rich and poor nations) achieved by voluntary non-breeding.
		Given that the current human population is unsustainably large, we have an imperative to pursue a negative population growth in all countries.
	www.venge.net /wedding/extinction.html (2516 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Science/Nature \| When humans faced extinction
		This means that, for a while, humanity was in a perilous state, vulnerable to disease, environmental disasters and conflict.
		The absence of those differences suggests to some researchers that the human gene pool was reduced to a small size in the recent past, thereby wiping out genetic variation between current populations.
		The small genetic diversity of modern humans indicates that at some stage during the last 100,000 years, the human population dwindled to a very low level.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/sci/tech/2975862.stm (550 words)

	LF Special Report: Risking human extinction
		Of all humans so far, roughly ten per cent are alive with you and me. If human extinction occurred soon, our position in population history would have been fairly ordinary.
		Humans might be wiped out through the deaths of microorganisms which were crucial to the health of the biosphere.
		Mind Children [2] that he believes the human race to be in its final hundred years, and that he intends to work for its speedy extinction.
	lifeboat.com /ex/risking.human.extinction (4073 words)

	The End of the World: The Science and Ethics of Human Extinction
		In the same way, the probabilities of specific risks to the survival of the human race, which we might be inclined to dismiss at 1% or 2%, would undergo inflation comparable to that of the probability of the lottery urn having had just 10 tickets in it.
		The most intriguing of the technological dangers to humanity's longevity is based on the suggestion that our universe could conceivably have a "false vacuum." In that case, experiments in high temperature physics might collapse the metastability of the quantum mechanical fool's paradise in which we have been living.
		Even if the human race's near-term extinction is much less than 50% likely, survival could still require an affirmative decision on the part of human leaders to ensure that the human race has a long future.
	pages.prodigy.net /aesir/teotw.htm (2251 words)

	Applauding Mass Human Extinction
		Humans do not appear to have the political ability or the will to decrease the world population, resource use, and habitat destruction.
		In this textbook, Pianka (University of Texas) examines the effects of human domination of ecosystems, habitat destruction and fragmentation, extinction, and pollution of the atmosphere, water and land.
		That is equating humanity itself as a disease, a plague, a pestilenece.
	technocrat.net /d/2006/4/2/1915 (3917 words)

	ollapodrida: The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
		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.
		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...
		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 Mother Nature's "experiments" have done throughout the eons.
	ollapodrida.net /blog/2006/06/voluntary-human-extinction-movement.php (260 words)

	The Last Human
		Our coming ability to choose our children’s genes is the “next social revolution that will raise difficult ethical dilemmas.”* Despite the fact that this altering could lead to human extinction, as some scientists suggest, Stock claims that humans will not forgo this opportunity.
		The Human Genome Project represents a platform for the future bio-enhancements described by Stock.
		Human Genome Project begun in 1990 in U.S. “Human Genome Project is a 13-year effort coordinated by the Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health.
	students.washington.edu /annaben/The_Last_Human/the_last_human.html (476 words)

	The Extinction of the Dinosaurs and the threat of Human Extinction
		Chase argues that at the heart of the "environmentalist world view is the conviction that human physical and spiritual health depends on sustaining the planet in a relatively unaltered state." But Chase argues that from an evolutionary perspective the Earth and the environment are always changing, constantly evolving.
		Chase concludes that the extinction of the dinosaurs, for example, was a good thing for human beings because they made room for our evolution.
		Wilson now asks the critical question: Does the drive to global environmental conquest, population growth, and human control over the environment demonstrate that "humanity is suicidal?" He argues that we aren't suicidal, we aren't doomed to destroy ourselves by destroying the ability of the global environment to support human life.
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/ecology/extinct.htm (2488 words)

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		Extinction or renewal - the weakened species is outcompeted or chance events eliminate it from the island.
		Human-mediated extinction: Extinction of species associated with human immigration and colonizations.
		Humans have also indirectly caused extinction of species by introducing competitively strong pests or by the elimination of habitat.
	www.nau.edu /~biology/gloss4.html (1245 words)

	The Darwin Award For Self-Extinction Goes To: By Bill Henderson
		Fortunately, as we have developed the power to re-engineer the world for human use and therefor the power to self-extinct we have developed a maturity to safeguard humanity's future.
		Human populations with a biomass a hundred times any previous animal except bacteria are eliminating untold biodiversity in re-engineering formerly wilderness habitat for human use.
		Wilson envisions human survivors of the Bottleneck maelstrom, but his fear is a world where biodiversity has been severely depleted, a Sixth Extinction that requires millions of years to recover.
	www.countercurrents.org /cc-henderson100406.htm (787 words)

	This Week In Science - human extinction
		The first comprehensive survey of potential catastrophes speculated upon by scientists, from comet and asteroid impacts to nuclear or chemical warfare, from ozone layer destruction to overpopulation and poisoning of the environment or the risk of disaster through genetic engineering.
		Human Beings - And How They Became Extinct - A look at a number of ways that the human species might meet its end over the next number of decades.
		X stands for eXtinction - A prominent physician warns that we could go the way of the dinosaurs if we don't face up to the threat of killer viruses.
	www.twis.org /science/science_in_society/futurism/human_extinction.htm (199 words)

	ABOUT THE MOVEMENT
		Voluntary human extinction is simply a concept to be added to existing belief systems, not a complex code of behavior to live by.
		Knight gave the name "Voluntary Human Extinction Movement" to a philosophy or worldview which has existed for as long as humans have been sapient.
		On December 2, 2005, an MSNBC TV program, The Situation with Tucker Carlson, featured Les in a segment entitled, "Taking on the [Voluntary] Human Extinction Movement" Although Tucker wasn't fully in agreement with VHEMT, his questions allowed the main points to be shared with the audience.
	www.vhemt.org /aboutvhemt.htm (2148 words)

	The New Atlantis - The Rhetoric of Extinction - Charles T. Rubin
		While he has a strong sense of the richness of human experience and the limits of the capabilities of computers, there remains something troubling about Chorost’s insistence that the emotional changes he undergoes post-implant are the result of his new cyborg status.
		Mindless optimism of this sort is vital to the rhetoric of extinction, intimately bound up as it is with the effort to define the issue of the future of science and technology as entirely a question of individual choice.
		Yet the rhetoric of extinction would have us believe that the restraints and controls of the past are of no value in relation to the post-human future.
	www.thenewatlantis.com /archive/11/rubin.htm (4160 words)

	Voluntary Human Extinction Movement
		Volunteers favor extinction as the only sure way of preventing us from repopulating right back to where we are today.
		Wildlife habitat won't have to be converted to human habitat.
		Even if not one more human were ever born, if we don't change our naughty ways, we will experience a future akin to the many sci-fi movies depicting a post-apocalypse world.
	www.mourningtheancient.com /vhemt.htm (1662 words)

	The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement - Philosophy & Spirituality - Shroomery Message Board
		Those that are logically consistent in their belief of the doctrine of evolution should have no fears since the biosphere is a self-correcting mechanism to ensure life on this planet as long as the environment can sustain it.
		Their mission is to have a gradual extinction by choosing not to reproduce.
		The last humans could enjoy their final sunsets peacefully, knowing they have returned the planet to as close to the garden of Eden as possible under the circumstances.
	www.shroomery.org /forums/showflat.php?Number=807882&page=0 (1505 words)

	Extinction of human species: - Forums powered by UBBThreads™ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		While asteroid or cometary impacts are a likely cause, runaway global warming may possibily lead to a total tektonic inversion similar to what is believed to have happened to the surface of venus because of it's relatively low amount of craters.
		As human species gets older (say, couple of million years), an adult human of 20's or 30's will have less physical strength, and will be much less fertile.
		In terms of severity, the Black death, the bubonic plague disease was the worst known plague in human history, in terms of %'s of population which likely died.
	uplink.space.com /showflat.php?Board=humanbio&Number=476111 (2200 words)

	Ecology.com - A New Look at human Extinction
		So perhaps an equally viable option is that human progress be tempered with the care of ensuring that human involvement remain essential to that progress, thereby ensuring that human needs are maintained and the quality of life improved.
		But as we have learned from our science fiction literature of the past, such things are based on real possibilities, many of which we have already witnessed in our lifetime, such as space travel, visiting other planets, the creation of the atomic bomb, nuclear power and machines that will talk to you.
		In speaking of the result of human progress witnessed far into the future by the Time Traveler, he wrote: "The great triumph of Humanity I had dreamed of took a different shape in my mind.
	www.ecology.com /ecology-today/house-extinction (642 words)

	Reducing the Risk of Human Extinction (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Maybe this is because human extinction seems impossible, inevitable, or, in either case, beyond our control; maybe human extinction seems inconsequential compared to the other social issues to which cost-effectiveness analysis has been applied; or maybe the methodological and philosophical problems involved seem insuperable.
		To efficiently spend resources reducing extinction risks, one needs to estimate the probabilities of particular extinction events, the expected duration of humanity in an event’s absence, the costs of extinction countermeasures, and the relative value of current and future human lives.
		To establish the priority of delaying human extinction among other public projects, we need to know not only the value of future lives but also the costs of extinction countermeasures and how to account for their uncertain success.
	www.acceleratingfuture.com /papers/extinction.htm (5141 words)

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