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When the first humans reached Australia about 45,000 years ago, they quickly drove to extinction 90% of its large animals. This was the first…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Homo rapiens is only one of very many species, and not obviously worth preserving. Later or sooner, it will become extinct. When it is…

— John N. Gray

Sometimes I think that the only effective and productive method of destroying speciesism would be for each uncaring human to be forced to live…

— Gary Yourofsky

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral…

— Anonymous

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Timeline of History Years Before the Present 13.5 billion Matter and energy appear. Beginning of physics. Atoms and molecules appear. Beginning of chemistry. 4.5…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

“Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along…

— John Gray

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

— Victor Blanchard Scheffer

“45,000 Sapiens settle Australia. Extinction of Australian megafauna. 30,000 Extinction of Neanderthals. 16,000 Sapiens settle America. Extinction of American megafauna.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of…

— Philip Wollen