VHEMT

English

Etymology

Pronounced “vehement” because, according to its founder, Les U. Knight, that is what they are.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈviː.ə.mənt/
  • Homophone: vehement

Proper noun

VHEMT

  1. Initialism of Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.
    • 2010, Dina McQueen, Finding Aster: Our Ethiopian Adoption Story, page 206:
      VHEMT spokesperson Les U. Knight states, “Adopting existing children avoids adding another wildlife habitat usurper to the excessive billions of us […]
    • 2013, John S. Dryzek, The Politics of the Earth: Environmental Discourses, page 42:
      The idea that humans are essentially cancerous is perhaps not a metaphor calculated to have broad appeal beyond (tiny) VHEMT, the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (whose slogan is “May we live long and die out.”).

See also

References

  1. ^ “Sui genocide”, in The Economist‎[1], 17 December 1998, archived from the original on 24 March 2012.

Further reading

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