Sometimes, you just need to wipe the drawing board clean and start over. 🤷👋 🔥
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?
I don’t think there’s a specific one yet, though insults towards such people abound.
Its certainly an extention of misanthropy though.
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.
Fatalism is in that mix, too. A very easy way to meet political complexity
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. 🙂
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.
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.
