Word: extinctionism
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The president wants to override the Endangered Species Act in order to allow logging in previously protected areas of the Pacific Northwest's virgin forest. A federal court has temporarily blocked the action, since it would lead to the extinction of the spotted owl and thus violate the act.
At the same time though, "You can't create a whole new kind of emotion and you can't make ridiculous connections like feeling affectionate for a bacterium. What you have to do is show how the rest of life, which is threatened with irreversible extinction, can enhance and expand...
The tropical island nation of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean presents a more hopeful case study, according to environmental historian Richard Grove of Cambridge University. Mauritius is nearly as densely peopled as Bangladesh, yet manages to support healthy ecosystems and a booming economy. Nearly 200 years ago, the island's...
He said that in the course of evolution there have been five occurrences of mass extinction.
Wilson contends in The Diversity of Life that homo sapiens have initiated a sixth mass extinction as a result of environmentally irresponsible development.