Word: extinctionism
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Now Asia is experiencing severe growing pains. Banks have loaned too much money, using inflated property values as collateral. In Thailand many banks have loaned more money than they have on deposit, and some 20% of the nation's lending has been done by especially aggressive, largely unregulated nonbank financial...
Greene, who describes himself as "stuck on snakes," believes they deserve a better rep. A collector since he was a seven-year-old in rural Texas, he sees them as far more interesting biologically and aesthetically than even fellow scientists once thought, and his research on snake behavior has helped...
As the ravenous mountain claims more and more territory, shrinking the boundaries of the safe zone, the once booming tourist destination moves closer to extinction. Towering menacingly above the island, Soufriere Hills erupts periodically, without warning. During explosions, even people in the safe zones wear gas masks and hard hats...
Relentless slaughter and overfishing will drive sharks, the top predators in the sea, to the brink of extinction [ENVIRONMENT, Aug. 11]. If the scientific community and the world at large do not act quickly enough to reverse the trend, there will be an ecological catastrophe. We humans have come to...
For years I have tried to persuade my Chinese mother-in-law not to make shark-fin soup because of the overfishing of sharks [ENVIRONMENT, Aug. 11]. She feels the "health benefits" of eating shark fins are more important than the shark's survivability. Sharply increasing prices have slowed down...