We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down. — Greta Thunburg Copy Share Image
We find ourselves heading fully into an era of mass extinction. — Severn Cullis-Suzuki Copy Share Image
Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man. — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
If anyone's going to bring about mass extinction, it'll be Donald Trump. — Nikki Glaser Copy Share Image
“During a mass extinction, vast swathes of the tree are cut short, as if attacked by crazed, axe-wielding madmen.” — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
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 matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together… — Annalee Newitz 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 epitaph for humanity does not yet have to include the tragic indictment of having engineered the sixth major mass extinction in… — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive… — Alycia Debnam Carey Copy Share Image
If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image
Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which… — Sharon Gannon 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 recent years, our planet has been warming at an alarming rate and seen record-breaking temperatures. We are now witnessing the sixth… — Catherine Cortez-Masto 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
With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
“One of the great challenges in reconstructing a mass extinction is making sense of what happened when. In the same way we… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The early Triassic was a period when the planet was recovering from the worst mass extinction it had ever known - that… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“So we now know the formula for extinction. Something happens to increase global temperatures five to six degrees, which triggers a melting… — Thom Hartmann Copy Share Image
“Ord ultimately concludes that human civilization has a good chance to survive even at double that temperature rise. "I looked at these… — Adam Becker Copy Share Image
“You know how the dinosaurs went extinct - they committed suicide when they saw the white man coming. They said to themselves,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
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