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Home Front: Culture Wars
An Academic's Proposal For Ending Climate Change: Human Extinction
2020-02-09
h/t Instapundit
[Hot Air] - I came across this on Twitter today and at first suspected it was satire but so far as I can tell it’s not. An Australian academic named Patricia MacCormack has a new book out titled, "The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene." The idea is that the earth would be better off without us and, therefore, it’s time to start an activism whose goal is our own extinction.
Instapundit's comment: I WORRY THAT SOME OF THESE KOOKS WILL ACTUALLY UNDERSTAND MICROBIOLOGY
Posted by:g(r)omgoru

#11  Isn't there a Greek word for that?
"necrology" or some such?
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-09 21:12  

#10  "death studies"?
Posted by: Lex   2020-02-09 21:11  

#9  It is against this context that Patricia McCormack delivers her expert justification for the “ahuman”. An alternative to “posthuman” thought, the term paves the way for thinking that doesn’t dissolve into nihilism and despair, but actively embraces issues like human extinction, vegan abolition, atheist occultism, death studies, a refusal of identity politics, deep ecology, and the apocalypse as an optimistic beginning.

So... she's a goth with a PHD and tenure?
Posted by: Secret Master   2020-02-09 20:11  

#8  We don't need total extinction, Say about 30% or whatever the number of die-hard lefties... If they would go the way of most other doomsday cults things would sort themselves out.
Posted by: ruprecht   2020-02-09 18:54  

#7  Inferno, 3rd in the Tom Hanks/Robert Langdon travelogue series of blockbuster hits. Better scenery than Twelve Monkeys.
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2020-02-09 17:21  

#6  As long as she can still write this kind of crap she is ineligible for a Darwin award.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2020-02-09 16:17  

#5  If that's really her picture, she may very well be excluded from the target population.
Posted by: Mercutio   2020-02-09 14:09  

#4  Apres vous.

If she's murdered police should rule assisted suicide by proxy.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2020-02-09 09:29  

#3  You first!
Posted by: Procopius2k   2020-02-09 06:50  

#2  The 'ol desire for human extinction by a rabid lefty, now on autoplay once a month.
Posted by: Raj   2020-02-09 05:17  

#1  Pretty much the plot of 12 Monkeys
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-02-09 02:58  

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