Awful Quote by Richard Lewontin

To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts like that…

— Annalee Newitz

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

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

There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale,…

— Noam Chomsky

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

— Ernest Becker

Even though I now know that it's likely the Earth will suffer through mega-volcanoes or meteor strikes that could take out millions or billions…

— Annalee Newitz

Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it.

— Rick Wilson

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

Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level…

— Al Gore

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

We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

We find ourselves heading fully into an era of mass extinction.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki