Word: extinctionism
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Her words cut to the heart of a dispute that has been going on for decades. Are whales just another animal, to be protected when threatened with extinction but otherwise exploited? Or are they somehow different, a race of intelligent, sensitive mammals that deserves special treatment? Norway's action has...
Conservationists winced at the notion of any additional logging in the remaining old-growth forests, warning it could push endangered species to extinction and imperil one of the nation's most vital natural habitats. Still, the antilogging forces sensed they had advanced. "We had a chance for a major victory...
When Clinton and his environmentalist sidekick, Al Gore, took office, they were already well aware that America's ecology was in crisis. From the spotted owls and salmon in the Northwest to woodpeckers and salamanders in the Southeast, many species were on the brink of extinction, and the implications were...
"They were just pumping the place dry," says Interior Secretary Babbitt. Last month, under threat of increasing federal intervention, the Texas legislature passed a bill empowering the state to regulate and manage the withdrawal of groundwater in Edwards Aquifer. The state will now devise a plan for equitable water distribution...
Increasingly, Mansfield's public comments are beginning to sound like the death Rattle of a man whose species is facing extinction. And Mansfield is not alone. In the face of tectonic cultural shifts, some men are beginning to feel beside, puzzled and dispirited. They perceive their domain as shrinking the...