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The Dog Walk

Tuesday 1/30/2024 - Is Earth a Better Planet Without Humans? (Tinfoil Tuesday)

The Dog Walk

Barstool Sports

Society & Culture

4.83.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On today's show we are joined by Les Knight from the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. We get into a discussion as to whether or not the planet is in a better spot if the human population is zero.


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0:00.0

Hey Dog Walk Walk listeners, you can find every episode on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube.

0:06.0

Prime members can listen to ad-free on Amazon Music.

0:09.0

All right, I'm man, today's Tuesday, it is January 30th.

0:12.0

Welcome to the Dog Walk presented by Barstow Sports.

0:15.0

As always on Tuesdays, it's myself.

0:17.0

Also joined by Chief, but we do have a guest today on Zoom coming out of Portland, Oregon.

0:22.0

We are joined by last night from the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement.

0:26.7

We're going to talk to Les what it's like to be an extinctionist.

0:30.3

Les, thanks for doing this. Welcome to the the show how do you like being an

0:34.4

extinctionist oh it's the greatest you know you know I hadn't heard that term

0:39.7

extinctionist until Elon Musk said you know the problem isn't left and right, it's

0:44.4

extinctionist versus humanitarian.

0:47.2

Like, wait a minute, I'm both humanitarian and extinctionist.

0:51.2

Well, how do you circle that square?

0:54.0

That kind of seems like they're at odds with each other. Oh it does seem like it at

0:57.8

first glance yes but you know as we phase ourselves out humans will have so much better life.

1:04.6

You know, tens of thousands of children dying every day.

1:07.1

All that would be gone.

1:08.5

We might even have world peace.

1:10.5

We stop fighting over all the resources and have more room spread out, you know, more of everything for everybody. Housing won't have homeless people because there will be houses available.

1:22.0

A way we're going now, we're increasing by 70 million a year.

1:26.0

And if we were decreasing by 70 million a year,

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