Fifty years ago, I concluded that the best thing for the planet would be a peaceful phase-out of human existence. My journey to advocating for voluntary human extinction began at school. In the late 1980s, I settled in Portland, Oregon, and began to call this concept the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. Today, Extinction Rebellion and the climate strike movement haven’t quite embraced the population’s contribution to the crisis. I was a deep ecologist at first, caring more about our impact on the ecosphere than human needs.

Source: The Guardian January 10, 2020 09:56 UTC