Sentences with phrase «between human extinction»

Climate twitter — the most fun twitter — has recently been reigniting the debate between human extinction and mere civilizational collapse, between doom and gloom, despair and (kind of) hope.

Buying green «is the difference between human extinction and an exciting new eco lifestyle!»

Not exact matches

First, with reference to the topic of the last section, it seems that Whitehead is doubtful that so sharp a line can be drawn between animals and humans that there is real warrant for affirming total extinction of all animals and survival of all humans.

The researchers built a complex series of mathematical models to recreate the dynamic interaction between the main potential drivers of extinction (dingoes, climate and humans), the long - term response of herbivore prey, and the viability of the thylacine and devil populations.

On the other hand, the results show a very strong correlation between the extinction and the history of human expansion.

While the overlap between people and the fauna is not proof positive of human causes for the many extinction events in the region, it is an important step to determine why these mammals went extinct.

Earth is in the midst of its sixth mass extinction: Somewhere between 30 and 159 species disappear every day, thanks largely to humans, and more than 300 types of mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians have vanished since 1500.

The researchers looked at the pattern of extinctions for 177 species of mammals weighing 10 kilograms or more between 132,000 years ago (the height of the next - to - last ice age to strike the Northern Hemisphere) and 1000 years ago (a time at which the ecological effects of human exploration and expansion became unquestionable).

Scientists have long argued about what caused the extinction of many species of megafauna — giant animals including mammoths, mastodons, and moas — beginning between 9000 and 13,000 years ago, when humans began to spread around the world.

Thus, there must have been a long lag between when this group branched off the modern human family tree, roughly 200,000 years ago, and when they left their genetic mark in the Altai Neanderthal, about 100,000 years ago, before themselves being lost to extinction.

Written by Ehren Kruger, who penned the previous two «Transformers» movies, and directed by Bay, who has directed each installment but says this fourth one will be his last, «Extinction» introduces a new human protagonist in Mark Wahlberg, playing a mechanic who gets caught in the middle of an ongoing war between rival clans of shape - shifting alien robots.

Apart from executing the unique trick of having us root for human extinction, War foregrounds a beautiful tension between the savage instinct for retribution and higher restraint — ironically fought within the heart of an animal.

Künstlerhaus Bethanien presents «Written in the Margins», a solo exhibition by the artist and writer Shubigi Rao, relying on wordplay and humour to explore the tenuous line between existence and extinction, be it human, cultural, species - specific or ideological.

It's perfectly reasonable to be alarmed at plausible threats posed by unprecedented changes in the atmosphere and biology of the earth wrought by human activity, even in the absence of absolute proof of a connection between individual storms, extinctions, and economic catastrophes, and rising levels of CO2.

If wind farms are really all that stands between the survival of the human species and bloody, fanged extinction then we're doomed, I tell you, we're doomed.

Many of these extinctions occur within and just following the Younger Dryas, and generally they are attributed to an interaction between climatic warming and human impacts (Barnosky et al., 2004; Brook and Barnosky, 2012; Koch and Barnosky, 2006).

Transitions between climates, in the sort of timescales humans care about, are full of extinction and hardship for life.