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This year Ehrlich is at it again. In Extinction: The Causes and Consequences of the Disappearance of Species, he argues that the destruction of species will spell disaster for mankind. Yet, though he again brings forth valid and enlightening points, Armageddon still doesn't seem near. Man may cause the...
Ever since Harper's Editor Lewis Lapham, 46, announced his resignation last month, the troubled 131-year-old monthly (circ: 336,000) has been engaged in an intense head-hunting expedition. Last week the search committee, headed by Rutgers English Professor Richard Poirier, chose Lapham's replacement: Michael...
Should man follow the dodo and the passenger pigeon into extinction, who will inherit the earth? Faced with that gloomy question, most futurists and even some zoologists tend toward the whimsical: late-late-show killer ants, say, or playful monsters that put one in mind of Lewis Carroll's...
Dixon assumes the continents will continue to drift, eventually creating a world that will be far different from today's. Africa, Eurasia, Australia and North America will come together to form a giant continent with new climates and ecosystems; South America will become a huge island. Once man has...
Take the creature that Dixon calls the rabbuck, for instance. Dixon figures that man, before disappearing, will destroy most of the world's woodlands in his search for fuel and farm land and will drive into extinction the deer and other browsing ungulates that now inhabit forests. But the...