Word: extinctionism
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The pig-tailed bandicoot is noteworthy because it encapsulates the contradictions conservationists face when they rail against the extinction of plants and animals. I drew the bandicoot example from the new book titled The Future of Life by Pellegrino University Research Professor E. O. Wilson, who spoke at ARCO Forum...
Our species has driven other species to extinction for thousands of years, and the process has only sped up in the last 200. A 1999 report in the journal Science showed that the extinction of a large Australian bird called Genyornis newtoni 50,000 years ago was likely due to...
Wilson said the world has seen “a mass extinction of species and habitat” in the past hundred years—destruction that causes human suffering and can never be undone.
It won't take a huge increase in population to bring about the destruction of the planet. Americans have shown that even modest population growth causes devastating overconsumption. As the materialistic aspirations of the middle class spread to the developing world, no amount of technology will save our species from...
At the center of debate is the question of whether progressive forces can embrace the market without compromising their social priorities?or losing their political souls. The inability to resolve that conundrum has bled France's once-mighty Communist Party to near extinction. Disgruntled working-class voters have increasingly sought...