Word: extinctionism
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Africa has its blinding clarities and its shadows. The clarities proclaim something primal, the first days of life. The shadows lie at the other extreme of time: in the premonition of last days, of extinction. Now you see the animals. Soon, perhaps, you won't.
The plot could be torn from yesterday's headlines: SEA SHEPHERD FROM OUTER SPACE. Imagine that the environmental activists who recently sank two Icelandic whaling vessels were the rulers of a 23rd century planet, and that they had sent to earth a probe with signals that could be answered only...
In his new book, entitled "The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History," Gould puts together a series of essays ranging from "flamingos that feed upside down" to "the extinction from baseball of the .400 hitter."
Moreover, even if the failure of deterrence were "inevitable," this proposition does not necessarily entail the apocalyptic conclusions that are often drawn from it. Failures need not be large ones that lead to extinction of the species. Even if a large failure is inevitable, that inevitability may come after thousands...
The current problem has been brought on not by celestial visitors but, as biologists agreed during the four-day meeting in Washington, by man. They attribute the developing ecological disaster to the systematic destruction of the world's tropical rain forests, particularly those in Latin America and Southeast Asia. Deforestation...