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> [ “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.” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/it-s-pretty-clear-that-times-of-high-carbon-dioxide-and-especially/)

[Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/)

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## Other authors on Extinctions

## More by Peter Brannen

> [“While the Texas oil economy relies on the truth of geology, many of its inhabitants remain stubbornly resistant to its charms.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/while-the-texas-oil-economy-relies-on-the-truth-of-geology-many-of/)

[Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/)

> [ “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… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/it-s-pretty-clear-that-times-of-high-carbon-dioxide-and-especially/)

[Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/)

> [“humans—the ultimate invasive species.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/humans-the-ultimate-invasive-species/)

[Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/)

> [“And the dizzying arsenal of our modern technology is a leap in innovation perhaps matched in the entire history of life only by the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/and-the-dizzying-arsenal-of-our-modern-technology-is-a-leap-in/)

[Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/)

> [“That our age is thought to be less epic than those worlds on offer at natural history museums is only an illusion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/that-our-age-is-thought-to-be-less-epic-than-those-worlds-on-offer-at/)

[Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/)

> [“The epitaph for humanity does not yet have to include the tragic indictment of having engineered the sixth major mass extinction in earth history.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/the-epitaph-for-humanity-does-not-yet-have-to-include-the-tragic/)

[Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/)

> [“When you put a log on the fire, the light and heat you see is, in a literal sense, the decades of sunshine that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/when-you-put-a-log-on-the-fire-the-light-and-heat-you-see-is-in-a/)

[Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/)

> [“Animal life has been all but destroyed in sudden, planetwide exterminations five times in Earth's history.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/animal-life-has-been-all-but-destroyed-in-sudden-planetwide/)

[Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/)

> [“As should be clear by now, perhaps no national project has had more of an incidentally beneficial effect on science than the Interstate Highway…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/peter-brannen/as-should-be-clear-by-now-perhaps-no-national-project-has-had-more-of/)

[Peter Brannen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/peter-brannen/)

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