Answers Quote by E. O. Wilson

The fate of the vast majority of species on this planet has been extinction, eventually.

— Alice Roberts

By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few…

— Stuart L. Pimm

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough…

— Bill Mollison

One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals for food/profit/using…

— Erik P. Eckholm

It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one…

— Donella Meadows

If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die,…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.

— James Hansen

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't…

— Paul Watson

Every species we cause to become extinct we come closer to our own extinction

— Unkown

As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a…

— David Grinspoon

If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will prevail that…

— Joel Sternfeld