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Is there a name for the ideology that humans should be wiped from the planet for the benefit of the planet and the rest of the organisms on it?

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Eco-fascism, or close to it.

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Eco-fascism would be putting a gun against people’s head and telling them to stop destroying our only habitat.

Acknowledging we’re destroying our only habitat isn’t eco-fascism, it’s just acceptance of the situation.

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You’re erasing the bit where they said humanity must be eliminated.

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement

VHEM for the extreme answer. I think we could follow more degrowth ideas and make good progress, but getting to world to follow degrowth probably won’t happen.

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Fatalism is in that mix, too. A very easy way to meet political complexity

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It seems tangential, perhaps? Like, accepting the fact that nature is going to kick our asses eventually anyway, is what you’re getting at? Let me know if that’s what you were thinking. 🙂

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Accepting it is a choice with practical consequences. We should work on understanding what is to change and how and focus on doing it.

Making prophecies about what “Eventually” happens is self handicapping, wich does not help :)

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I don’t think there’s a specific one yet, though insults towards such people abound.

Its certainly an extention of misanthropy though.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misanthropy

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Misanthropy involves a negative evaluative attitude toward humanity that is based on humankind’s flaws. Misanthropes hold that these flaws characterize all or at least the greater majority of human beings. They claim that there is no easy way to rectify them short of a complete transformation of the dominant way of life.

I thought this was quite interesting. I think I agree very much with

there is no easy way to rectify them short of a complete transformation of the dominant way of life

but not so much with

these flaws characterize all or at least the greater majority of human beings

I just think these flaws characterize all or the greater majority of human beings that possess a relative amount of power. That’s the real problem. Or perhaps the real problem is that power itself transforms humans and gives them these flaws. I’m not sure if it’s the chicken or the egg, kind of thing.

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