Word: extinctionism
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In the middle of the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, the island of Mauritius took several million years to develop animal forms that exist nowhere else in the world. But what nature can accomplish in eons, humanity can undo in millenniums, and that is exactly what the species Homo sapiens...
Under the threat of extinction, professors are now giving their lectures more zeal, as well as sell, than they did in the past. Many a full professor who left his undergraduates mostly to wan and preoccupied teaching assistants is back in the classroom going all out. If the crunch on...
Thus, unlike many of his colleagues, Leakey does not believe that modern man is necessarily programmed for Armageddon. Other species faded and died out simply because they had no choice. "But in our case," says the Anthro- pologist, "extinction would be entirely of our own making, the result of being...
It is observations like this that grant Leakey's entertaining book its powerful moral underpinning. Only when mankind knows where it has come from can it tell where it is to go. Our past, observes Leakey, is beyond our control. Our future-and the choice between extinction or survival...
Congratulations to the little fish, the snail darter [June 26]! Perhaps humankind is at last using its brain and realizing that as we exterminate life around us, we are narrowing the gap between us and our own extinction.