Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“no extinctions from this point onward are inevitable (this has always been true, however) 19,340” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Another expert, David Jablonski, characterizes mass extinctions as “substantial biodiversity losses” that occur rapidly and are “global in extent.” — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own. — Guy R. McPherson Copy Share Image
Climate change, habitat destruction, extinctions - the Earth has seen it all before, thousands of years ago. And humans may have been… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
“Intent on their small extinctions, they are ignorant of the greater death going on all around them.” — Guy Haley Copy Share Image
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be… — Peter Kingsley Copy Share Image
“background extinction.” In ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation,… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines,… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“It’s] pretty clear that times of high carbon dioxide—and especially times when carbon dioxide levels rapidly rose—coincided with the mass extinctions,” writes… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
“There’s a voice that says: "So what?" It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Recent studies funded by Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council provide support for those concerns. (Thomas, et al, 2004; Stevens, et al, 2004)… — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“The cause of these great extinctions, the most extensive in the seventy-million-year record for mammals, is a mystery. The two prevailing guesses,… — Stephen J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But for now it’s goodbye to the beaches, and indeed many a celebrated island of yore now lies deep under the waves.… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“In ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation, and it… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“I mention all this to make the point that if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
![“It’s] pretty clear that times of high carbon dioxide—and especially times when carbon dioxide levels rapidly rose—coincided with the mass extinctions,” writes University of Washington paleontologist and End-Permian mass extinction expert Peter Ward. “Here is the driver of extinction.” quote by Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/206/peter-brannen-44487_carbon-dioxide_it-s-pretty-clear-that-times-of-high-car_265397.jpg)
