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The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.
But the main thing is to give people permission to feel it and to put grief at the heart of what Extinction Rebellion's about.
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.
With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.
There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.
A decade down the line, I don't want to sit back and think that I didn't do anything to stop disasters like the extinction of certain species.
Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.
An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.
The UN has given us until 2020 to change the course of humanity. If that doesn't happen human extinction in my children's lifetime is a possibility.
At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction.
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.
Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike.
Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to take over the world.
Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys, dead ends, and extinction.
This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And, God willing, it will fall to the ground.
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.
Human extinction in our children's lifetime, it should be your top news item every single day, what's happening, you should be holding politicians to account.
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them in confinement.
Egypt is home to the largest Christian population in the Middle East, largely because they've been persecuted to brink of extinction everywhere else in the region.
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?