The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement believes in 'refraining' from reproduction in order to reduce one's carbon footprint.
VANCOUVER -- When Roy Sasano told his parents he was getting sterilized a few years ago to reduce his carbon footprint, he remembers they weren't surprised.
Sasano is part of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement or Vhemt that believes in "refraining" from reproduction. Katharine Hayhoe, an atmospheric scientist and professor of political science at Texas Tech University, said individual decisions matter in the fight against climate change as much as collective action on things like carbon pricing and the Paris agreement.
"If the entire world were like Zambia we would not really have much of a problem," she said. "If the entire world was filled with people with the carbon footprint of the average Canadian though, we would have a huge problem.""It's very hard to bring a child into this world but if we decide not to then there's no hope in the world," she said. "It's not black and white. It's a very, very grey issue.
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