Quotes About Mass Extinction

#1. It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms.

Sharon Gannon

#2. With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the earth with such geologic-forcing effects that we ourselves are forces of nature. Climate change, ocean acidification, the sixth mass extinction of species.

Kate Bernheimer

#3. Truth be told, if Islam and the Sixth Mass Extinction continue on their path unhindered, chances are worlds will collide with high casualty rates...

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#4. The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.

E. O. Wilson

#5. No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

Derrick Jensen

#6. Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we can prevent a mass extinction with the science and technology we have today. We can build carbon neutral cities.

Annalee Newitz

#7. 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 University of Washington paleontologist and End-Permian mass extinction expert Peter Ward. "Here is the driver of extinction.

Peter Brannen

#8. The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history.

Steven Magee

#9. By a pair of herpetologists. It was titled Are We in the Midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction?

Elizabeth Kolbert

#10. If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

Mark Lynas

#11. We must admit that by approving multiculturalism in its current, misguided form, we are paving the road to White, Black, Indian and Asian genocide faster than the Sixth Mass Extinction.

Anita B. Sulser PhD

#12. So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together with culture, economics, and even politics.

Annalee Newitz

#13. We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#14. In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious threat. In fact, we are technically in the sixth mass extinction right now, and it is the first mass extinction being attributed to humans.

Cameron Russell

#15. 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 one, and we are now facing the sixth mass extinction in cosmological history. If any other organism did this, a biologist would consider them a virus.

Philip Wollen

#16. 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 glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#17. Our past affects us, our present affects us, and even our future can affect us. We live in the relative world of time and space.

Frederick Lenz

#18. All my romantic stories are a scrambled version of that first one.

John Cusack

#19. What does a mirror look at?

Frank Herbert

#20. There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive in vacuums in space and boiling hot water and freezing subzero temperatures.

Alycia Debnam Carey

#21. I'm a night person; I don't usually get up till noon.

Margaret Keane

#22. Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food.

Bill Gaede

#23. I would [call myself a feminist], yes, I believe in the unadulterated advancement of women. And we have so far to go still.

Rashida Jones

#24. Here is the irony: Europe dominated the world, but it failed to dominate itself. For five hundred years Europe tore itself apart in civil wars, and as a result there was never a European empire - there was instead a British empire, a Spanish empire, a French empire, a Portuguese empire, and so on.

George Friedman

#25. I found real fulfillment through my children and through adopting special needs kids.

Mia Farrow

#26. Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.

Grant Morrison

#27. And after all, it wasn't her fault that she was an idiot and had two ridiculous children. Life isn't fair and never has been.

Eva Ibbotson

#28. 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

#29. You'll only realize the worth of something when you'll have it no more in your life !

S.A.M.

#30. If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass extinctions, wars, and collapsing civilizations.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

#31. Someone, my mother had said. Make someone very happy. Not a her. But someone. I

T.J. Klune

#32. Man steps on an ant when he can't catch the fly.

Bill Gaede

#33. I still like doing stand-up now, but it's not the same. It used to be that I was out there with five other comedians. Now I usually just do it alone.

Adam Sandler