VHEMT

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English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

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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.”).

References

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  1. ^ “Sui genocide”, in The Economist[1], 1998 December 17, archived from the original on 2012-03-24.