Death Quote by Guy Haley

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals,…

— Robert T. Bakker

In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious…

— Cameron Russell

“But for now it’s goodbye to the beaches, and indeed many a celebrated island of yore now lies deep under the waves. An entire…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look…

— Bill Bryson

“The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of…

— Peter Kingsley

“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Recent studies funded by Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council provide support for those concerns. (Thomas, et al, 2004; Stevens, et al, 2004) While there…

— Bruce H. Lipton

“In ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation, and it occurs at…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions…

— Gisele Bundchen

“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before the Industrial…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The more we heat up the planet, the more it costs all of us, not just in money, but in colossal famines, displacements, deaths,…

— Rebecca Solnit