This really resonates with my weltanschauung

I came across the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement from a post on cartoonist Nina Paley's ("America's Best-Loved Unknown Cartoonist") website.

What a noble cause! And by my (in)action of not having any children, I have been a member all along. From VHEMT's About The Movement page:

VHEMT (pronounced vehement) is a movement not an organization. It's a movement advanced by people who care about life on planet Earth. We're not just a bunch of misanthropes and anti-social, Malthusian misfits, taking morbid delight whenever disaster strikes humans. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Voluntary human extinction is the humanitarian alternative to human disasters.

We don't carry on about how the human race has shown itself to be a greedy, amoral parasite on the once-healthy face of this planet. That type of negativity offers no solution to the inexorable horrors which human activity is causing.

Rather, The Movement presents an encouraging alternative to the callous exploitation and wholesale destruction of Earth's ecology.

As VHEMT Volunteers know, the hopeful alternative to the extinction of millions of species of plants and animals is the voluntary extinction of one species: Homo sapiens... us.

Each time another one of us decides to not add another one of us to the burgeoning billions already squatting on this ravaged planet, another ray of hope shines through the gloom.

When every human chooses to stop breeding, Earth's biosphere will be allowed to return to its former glory, and all remaining creatures will be free to live, die, evolve (if they believe in evolution), and will perhaps pass away, as so many of Nature's "experiments" have done throughout the eons.

It's going to take all of us going.

Nina Paley is a great cartoonist and the illustration on the page and leading this post was done by her. Check out her work. Paley's post which brought this to my attention follows:

Sometimes the greatest compliment comes in the form of being hated by the right people. So I was thrilled to discover this condemnation from the Forced-Birthers, who only took five years to notice my work exists. Five years, but so worth the wait.

The organization criticizing Paley is the insipid Generations For Life whose slogan is “The Youth Outreach of the Pro-Life Action League.” You should specifically check out the Paley cartoons which GFL describes as “horrific”. I think they (meaning Paley's cartoons) are spot on, entertaining and moving. And rather than seeing the humor the GFL poster goes on to opine:

What I don’t understand is why anyone who subscribes to the idea of voluntary extinction doesn’t just hurry things along and commit suicide.

How “christian“ of them.

Anyway, if you choose to join VHEMT, feel free to do so. They ask for no dues, no contributions. The statements on their web site are about as sane as they come. I'll leave you with this from their site:

Q: Are you really serious?

We're really vehement.

Many see humor in The Movement and think we can't be serious about voluntary human extinction, but in spite of the seriousness of both situation and movement, there's room for humor. In fact, without humor, Earth's condition gets unbearably depressing -- a little levity eases the gravity.

True, wildlife rapidly going extinct and 40,000 children dying each day are not laughing matters, but neither laughing nor bemoaning will change what's happening. We may as well have some fun as we work and play toward a better world.

Besides, returning Earth to its natural splendor and ending needless suffering of humanity are happy thoughts -- no sense moping around in gloom and doom.