Prof Argues for Human Extinction to Save the Planet
“book suggests an extreme solution to the current ecological crisis – human extinction”
When someone suggests this, there is only one appropriate response. You first.
The College Fix reports:
To save the planet, end the human race, professor argues
It’s been a few years since The College Fix has reported on scholar Patricia MacCormack. Last we met up with her, she’d given a guest lecture at UC Santa Barbara arguing animals are equal to humans.
Well, she’s back in the headlines.
MacCormack, professor of continental philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University in England, is out with a new book titled “The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene.”
“The Ahuman Manifesto navigates the ways in which we must compose the human differently, specifically beyond nihilism and post- and trans-humanism and outside human privilege,” according to its online description.
The Cambridge Network thankfully translated that into English:
The book asks what the relevance and benefit of human life to Earth actually is. Covering a range of contemporary issues including climate change, animal rights, and veganism, the book suggests an extreme solution to the current ecological crisis – human extinction.
In its final chapter, The Ahuman Manifesto looks at developments since entering the age of the Anthropocene, including the “capitalist enslavement of human and nonhuman organisms to the point of ‘zombiedom’”. It goes on to argue that we’re already “apocalypse citizens” and that a gradual phasing out of human life should be embraced.
She explained her bizarre theory further in an interview with Cambridgeshire Live, saying:
“The basic premise of the book is that we’re in the age of the Anthropocene, humanity has caused mass problems and one of them is creating this hierarchal world where white, male, heterosexual and able-bodied people are succeeding, and people of different races, genders, sexualities and those with disabilities are struggling to get that. … The book also argues that we need to dismantle religion, and other overriding powers like the church of capitalism or the cult of self, as it makes people act upon enforced rules rather than respond thoughtfully to the situations in front of them.”
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She looks like the love child of Marilyn Manson and Wednesday Addams.
Classic Liberal thinking.
1. Identify problem
2. Complain loudly
3. Kill Whitey and take all his money
4. ??????
5. Profit
Be careful with your nomenclature. The US was founded by classical liberals steeped in the philosophy of the Anglo Enlightenment. Modern progressive so-called liberals are in no way liberal. Their political philosophy is rooted in the Continental Enlightenment, which manifested in the dysfunctional French Revolution and subsequently spawned Marxism, fascism, and the neo-Marxism worshipped by Democrats today.
Lead by example. Please stop breathing my air.
Will she volunteer to kill herself? Setting a good example and all that sort of thing?
“She looks like the love child of Marilyn Manson and Wednesday Addams.” Perhaps you meant Jim Jones (late of the People’s Temple)?
Gonna need a BIG jug o’Kool-Aid for all of us. Or at least some engineered virus that permanently reduces human fertility to zero.
You first, Pattie!
I miss the good old days when people who hated themselves kept it to themselves. Nowadays they are artists and philosophers.
“The College Fix has reported on scholar Patricia MacCormack”
Scholar? Perhaps the most over used term around. Just because someone has a PhD or is a “professor” does not make one a “scholar.”
The reality is to get noticed in most branches of academia today one has to keep pushing the envelope to more and more extreme positions. Its how we end up with 133 genders (used to be 60 then 72 but now I have lost count) and people who advocate for human extinction to solve current problems.
Throughout human history people has consistently underestimated the ability of current and future generations to solve problems. If we do have a climate problem or whatever, smart people will come up with solutions largely incentivized by capitalism based opportunties.
All I can say is, You first?