Word: extinctionism
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Now comes Barbara Kingsolver, whose second novel, Animal Dreams, is an entertaining distillation of eco-feminist materials. There is the fragile landscape -- the fictional town of Grace, Ariz., whose river and Edenic orchards face extinction by the Black Mountain Mining Co. And there is the doughty heroine -- Codi Noline, who...
The NEA's survival is scheduled for debate in the House in September or October, and pending proposals range from unrestricted reauthorization to outright extinction. The pork-barrel aspects of the agency -- it funds many hundreds of institutions, large and small, in all 50 states -- would seem to ensure its...
The controversy offers the U.S. an opportunity to reassess the cost of past profligacy and salvage what remains of a treasured legacy of wildlife and ancient forest. Neither the owl nor the timbermen are served by further governmental inaction or sham solutions. What is gained by waiting until the last...
My essay laid a theoretical foundation for virtually the entire range of my future public activities. I wanted to alert readers to the grave perils threatening the human race -- thermonuclear extinction, ecological catastrophe, famine, an uncontrolled population explosion, alienation and dogmatic distortion of our conception of reality.
Q. Hasn't human progress brought us to a point where technology might cause our own extinction?