--- title: "8 Human Extinction Quotes by 6 authors" description: "Browse 8 Human Extinction quotes by 6 authors. Discover the best Human Extinction sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/margaret-atwood-40_america_plague-has-hung-over-human-history-the-b_41371.jpg" --- > [Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/plague-has-hung-over-human-history-the-biggest-human-extinction-was/) [Margaret Atwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/margaret-atwood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/margaret-atwood-40_america_plague-has-hung-over-human-history-the-b_41371.jpg) > [Human extinction in our children's lifetime, it should be your top news item every single day, what's happening, you should be holding…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-bradbrook/human-extinction-in-our-children-s-lifetime-it-should-be-your-top/) [Gail Bradbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-bradbrook/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b92/gail-bradbrook-10563_children_human-extinction-in-our-children-s-lifet_47692.jpg) > [The UN has given us until 2020 to change the course of humanity. If that doesn't happen human extinction in my children's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-bradbrook/the-un-has-given-us-until-2020-to-change-the-course-of-humanity-if/) [Gail Bradbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-bradbrook/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/59b/gail-bradbrook-10563_change_the-un-has-given-us-until-2020-to-change_597843.jpg) > [We're not just being dramatic talking about a human extinction - that's the pathway we're on. We have to look at the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gail-bradbrook/we-re-not-just-being-dramatic-talking-about-a-human-extinction-that-s/) [Gail Bradbrook](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gail-bradbrook/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e39/gail-bradbrook-10563_bigger-picture_we-re-not-just-being-dramatic-talking-ab_605307.jpg) > [“I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will occur, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-benatar/i-shall-not-assess-arguments-and-evidence-for-competing-views-about/) [David Benatar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-benatar/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9e/david-benatar-19400_extinction_i-shall-not-assess-arguments-and-evidenc_1848930.jpg) > [“They've been given an explanation of how things came to be this way, and this stills their alarm. This explanation covers everything,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/daniel-quinn/they-ve-been-given-an-explanation-of-how-things-came-to-be-this-way/) [Daniel Quinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/daniel-quinn/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/143/daniel-quinn-1786_environment_they-ve-been-given-an-explanation-of-how_2174034.jpg) > [No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-sternfeld/no-one-can-say-how-long-the-process-of-human-extinction-might-take/) [Joel Sternfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-sternfeld/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebd/joel-sternfeld-26021_always_no-one-can-say-how-long-the-process-of-h_2351966.jpg) > [“This is not war, its human extinction. ~ Optimus Prime”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bobby-akart/this-is-not-war-its-human-extinction-optimus-prime/) [Bobby Akart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bobby-akart/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c25/bobby-akart-12240_extinction_this-is-not-war-its-human-extinction-opt_2800597.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-extinction/#itemlist", "name": "Human Extinction Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate was 95 per cent, which is enormous. But again, I'm actually giving you grounds for optimism: There were enough to continue. The five per cent who made it through are what you need to survive a bottleneck, which we have been through before.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Margaret Atwood" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/margaret-atwood/plague-has-hung-over-human-history-the-biggest-human-extinction-was/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/margaret-atwood-40_america_plague-has-hung-over-human-history-the-b_41371.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/margaret-atwood-40_america_plague-has-hung-over-human-history-the-b_41371.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/margaret-atwood-40_america_plague-has-hung-over-human-history-the-b_41371.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Plague has hung over human history. 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