Sentences with phrase «for human extinction»

I continue to (a) appreciate his collection of positive feedback loops, and (b) disagree that his time - frame for human extinction is possible.

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.

to perfecting the means for human extinction.

Our politicians and the technicians of violence have shown great dedication to perfecting the means for human extinction.

Not exact matches

On the contrary the fishing of sharks for their fins by humans has brought many species to the brink of extinction.

«I really think there are two fundamental paths [for humans]: One path is we stay on Earth forever, and some eventual extinction event wipes us out,» he said.

@pockets: So, what scares you is that someone who believes everyone on Earth was created for a reason, and who believes that all live is sacred, is given the power to choose whether or not to bring about the extinction of the human race.

Even though Rickover seems given over to the probability of nuclear extinction, he nevertheless seems to appreciate that weapons are not «neutral,» that their presence introduces a compelling temptation for human beings to use them.

Thus, there is the entropy at the atomic and molecular levels in the form of the loss of physical energy; then there is entropy in the form of the extinction of life at the biological level; next, there is the entropy appropriate for the level of human life, namely, human death.

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.

Death is «the extinction of this never - to - be repeated human being, for whom I had cared and for whom his survivors now grieve.»

What he opposes most stridently in this book is not religious doubt itself or attempts to understand religion as a human construct or a biological phenomenon, but rather what he sees as a very artificial and incomplete view of human nature and its purpose: the very presumption that religion can be explained away as unnecessary and that such materialistic perspectives could be definitive or anywhere near ultimately satisfactory for beings who are obviously designed to crave so much more than mere birth, death, and extinction.

There are other parenting truths however that are so terrifying that popular parenting books don't dare mention them for fear that every reasonable adult on earth would immediately line up for voluntary sterilization if they knew and quickly cause the extinction of the human race.

«Until around 100,000 years ago, a dispassionate observer would have no basis for predicting either the extinction of rival human species or Homo sapiens» current global ecological dominion,» Shea says.

But in this darker interpretation, the half man and half horse is no match for human horsemen — and appears doomed for extinction.

This massive environmental change is believed to have created population bottlenecks in the various species that existed at the time; this in turn accelerated differentiation of the isolated human populations, eventually leading to the extinction of all the other human species except for the branch that became modern humans.

Fisher says that it isn't clear whether the knife - wielders killed the mastodon or simply scavenged the carcass, but «however humans and mastodons interacted, it took at least two millennia for the process of extinction to run to completion».

That's good news for lemurs in their native home of Madagascar, where lemurs live on the brink of extinction, and where human population growth makes contact with people and inter-species exchange of infectious disease increasingly likely.

Unlike many bird species that are now extinct on the Earth's small islands, the Eastern Bluebird and the Hispaniolan Crossbill disappeared long before the first people arrived, uncoupling their extinction from human actions, such as the introduction of new predators and habitat loss for agricultural use.

«The idea that... the presence of humans alone is fully responsible for the extinction is not tenable,» he says.

Human - caused climate change, ocean acidification and species extinctions may eventually threaten the collapse of civilization, according to some scientists, while other people argue that for political or economic reasons we should allow industrial development to continue without restrictions.

«There was anecdotal evidence too: both thylacines and devils lasted for over 40,000 years following the arrival of humans in Australia; their mainland extinction about 3000 years ago was just after dingoes were introduced to Australia; and the fact that thylacines and devils persisted on Tasmania, which was never colonised by dingoes.

«Prior to our paper, the common view was that the human Y was headed for extinction, but we've found that it is not about to crash and burn.»

The specter of existential threats is raised to reflect the grave risks to human health and species extinction from warming beyond 5 ° C, which has not been experienced for at least the past 20 million years.

Human activity is responsible for a sixth extinction of thousands of species, so Paul Ehrlich and a colleague call for educating women to slow population growth

Then there are the bees: Regardless of whether honeybees become extinct as a species as a result of colony collapse disorder, climate change and other threats, the local extinction of various honeybee populations and the pollination they provide could spell disaster for human agriculture.

Since people also arrived after that time, it has been impossible to determine whether natural changes or human influence are most responsible for these extinctions.

In the review, the scientists report analyses of the most comprehensive radiocarbon data set of Caribbean mammals and human arrivals in the Caribbean, representing 57 extinction and extirpation (when a population vanishes from an island) events for native species.

The authors showed that after the initial waves of human arrival, mammal extinctions followed, presumably first caused by hunting and later by forest clearing for agriculture, which reduces the habitat for native mammals.

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.

Scientists still do not fully know the precise reasons for the extinction of many species; it probably took place due to a combination of climate change and hunting by humans.

«The near extinction of sea otters is one of the most dramatic examples of human - induced impacts to the structure and functioning of temperate nearshore marine ecosystems,» said Rebecca G. Martone, of the Center for Ocean Solutions at Stanford University.

For the past few millennia, and particularly the past century, humans have been the driving force behind the overwhelming majority of species» extinctions.

These local extinctions could also extend to species that humans depend on for food and resources.

The current rate of extinction is up to 1,000 times faster than it would be without humans, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN).

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).

Do I fear for the extinction of the human species?

This article appeared in print under the headline «Humans blamed for Caribbean ground sloth extinction»

Current competing hypotheses for the mammoth's extinction point to human hunting or climate change, possibly combining in a deadly one - two punch.

Biographical sketches of the people he has interviewed for the book get approximately equal airtime with their opinions about human extinction and transcendence.

Other films challenged audiences to confront the role of humans in wildlife extinction, invited viewers to think twice about our seemingly insatiable appetites for food and fuel, and encouraged the adoption of more sustainable ways of life.

The new study published in Scientific Reports, has shown that the tiny creatures, will survive the risk of extinction from all astrophysical catastrophes, and be around for at least 10 billion years — far longer than the human race.

Thisapparent extinction, far from creating a domino effect of furtherlosses, may have created an opportunity for other grasshopper species.The red - legged grasshopper (Melanoplus femurrubrum), which wasresponsible for newsworthy outbreaks in Idaho two years ago, thrives onground broken by agriculture and other human endeavors.

«The thylacine was a marsupial carnivore, now infamous for its recent human - driven extinction from Tasmania following the arrival of Europeans and their bounty hunting schemes,» says project leader Associate Professor Jeremy Austin, Deputy Director of ACAD.

Roberto Cazzolla Gatti, who began to be interested in the role of cooperation in evolution since 2011, when he published a controversial paper titled «Evolution is a cooperative process: the biodiversity - related niches differentiation theory (BNDT) can explain» concluded: «These theoretical findings, confirmed by empirical approaches, should motivate our species to think before it is too late about how human competition, for the first time in the history of life on Earth, has been systematically leading to the extinction of animals and plants.

Stirton's work not only shines a light «on a species being pushed to the brink of extinction, but also on the issues of human morality and compassion for the animals we share this planet with», says Liz Bonnin, who presents the awards.

As he told me and recounted in his (excellent) memoirs, The Trembling Mountain, Klitzman spent a year with the Fore (FOR - ay) tribe of Papua New Guinea, who are, along with the inhabitants of the British Isles, still the only two known human populations to have ever been threatened with virtual extinction at the hands of a submicroscopic particle known as a prion.

This is clearest in the Americas, where the debate over whether humans or climate caused Late Pleistocene extinctions has raged for decades (the truth is probably a combination of these two factors, including a trophic cascade caused by human - mediated extinctions of large carnivores).

«At this time, we can't say how much of a role humans played in the extinction of X. mcgregori on Jamaica, but the timing is too coincidental for there to be no role,» says Cooke.

Unsustainable hunting for consumption and trade of wild meat (also known as bushmeat) by humans represents a significant extinction threat to wild terrestrial mammal populations, perhaps most notably in parts of Asia, Africa and South America [4 — 6].