Word: extinctionism
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Q. Does extinction mean failure?
A. Extinction is the fate of all creatures ultimately. That's why it is so arrogant of us to think of dinosaurs as unsuccessful because they are dead. After all, they were around for 120 million years or so, and we have been around for only 250,000. And what...
"The pink triangle has its roots in the oppression and extinction of a minority in Nazi Germany," says Jarrett T. Barrios '90, co-chair of Bisexual Gay Lebsian Students Association (BGLSA). "For him to want to oppose that with a blue square is to call for discrimination, hate and intolerance...
There is little evidence that the walleye population is near extinction. According to the state department of natural resources, which sets the safe harvest level for fishing, sport anglers caught 670,000 walleyes last year, vs. only 16,000 speared by Chippewa fishermen.
But problems of ozone depletion, toxic pollution, climatic warming and mass extinction of species--the areas Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson has identified as the "four horsemen of the environmental apocalypse" --have existed for many years. It is only recently that they have come to play such a major part...