Each of us spends a lifetime consuming 4,000 barrels of oil, l.5 million pounds of minerals and 62,000 pounds of animal products-- necessitating the slaughter of 2,000 animals.
Not bad for a creature who spends a third of his life sleeping and more than 25,500 hours urinating.
Anyway, the Voluntary Human Extinction movement wants human beings to phase out their existence to save the Earth.
VHE founder Les Knight says the planet’s 6.5 billion humans every hour bear 16,000 offspring. And each of them will eventually produce 22 million pounds of liquid waste and 4.4 million pounds of solid and atmospheric wastes.
No wonder the ice regions are retreating. They can’t stand the smell. (18 DECEMBER 2005)