Sentences with phrase «human extinction strikes»

Complete human extinction strikes the author as unlikely due to our «unique combination of intelligence and a strong survival instinct.

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Reading Pierre Trudeau's remarks today, I'm struck by his foresight on issues like protection of fragile Arctic landscapes, and the capability of humans to push our species and others into extinction.

Shermer's article is a shallow and tendentious treatment of a complex subject that does not take proper account of rebuttals to critical attacks on the Younger Dryas impact hypothesis, in which a comet strike more than 12,000 years ago caused the megafaunal extinction in North America, and misrepresents the state of the argument around my theory that this event wiped out an advanced human society as well.

And while previous extinctions have been driven by natural planetary transformations or catastrophic asteroid strikes, the current die - off can be associated to human activity, a situation that the lead author Rodolfo Dirzo, a professor of biology at Stanford, designates an era of «Anthropocene defaunation.»

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).

Much as I sypathize with your frustration Ms Goldman, I think that the meteor strike of 60 million years ago (along with whatever the cause of the other half - dozen mass extinctions) qualifies as a worse thing that human excess — at least so far.