Word: extinctionism
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While once it was possible to live one's entire life in New England speaking French, today's community is trying to save its culture and prevent a gradual loss of its language. The descendants of those Quebecers who had moved to the United States from 1860 to 1930 in...
But there's a bright side to overpopulation, if we take the long long-term point of view. Until about 10,000 years ago, the human population was probably less than 25 million, mostly scattered in bands of 30 to 40 members each. Mates were probably hard to find -- especially...
After two failed tries this week and with just one more chance left, a Russian cosmonaut successfully docked a food-laden Progress M-24 rocket with the orbital space station Mir. The risky move may have saved Russia's manned space program from extinction. If the manual attempt had failed...
One of the liveliest topics of the moment seems, improbably, to be death, even as life expectancies increase. While many of the world's thinkers are worried about the proliferation of births, it is the knelling sound of death that keeps us awake at night. The best-seller lists are...
Perhaps the most common way of making peace with death -- getting over it, in a sense -- is by thinking of it as a way to "meet one's maker." Religions of every kind might almost be said to exist to help us deal with our extinction. They tell us that...