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If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback on realizing that they have actually destroyed the world. Therefore I suggest that if the Earth is destroyed, it will probably be by mistake.

~Eliezer Yudkowsky

Topics: Actually Allow Deed Destroyed Doers Earth Enough Extinction Horrified Likely Mistake Moment Our Proceeds Quite Realization Realizing Slowly Suggest Taken Therefore Will World

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Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment.

~Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

Topics: Due Environment Extinction Facing Human Hundreds Impacts Species

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The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain confined to one planet and eventually there's going to be an extinction event.

~Elon Musk

Topics: Become Confined Directions Either Event Eventually Extinction Future Going Humanity Planet Remain Two

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'Man is an endangered species,' announces one of the titles at the beginning of the sci-fi lump 'Battlefield Earth.' And after about 20 minutes of this amateurish picture, extinction doesn't seem like such a bad idea.

~Elvis Mitchell

Topics: About After Bad Bad Idea Battlefield Beginning Earth Endangered Endangered Species Extinction Idea Like Lump Man Minutes Picture Sci-Fi Seem Species Titles

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Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

~Ernst Mayr

Topics: Behavioral Competitive Doomed Ecological Evolutionary Extinction Few Give Improved Innovations Inventions Make May Most Physiological Potential Rapid Species Them

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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

~Frances Beinecke

Topics: Come Conservation Eagles Extinction Future Future Generations Generations Must Protecting Safeguard Story Success Success Story Threat

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I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

~Frans Lanting

Topics: Belief Crisis Doing Driven Extinction Interpret Links Many Midst Natural Natural World Our Scientists Time Us Want World World-Class

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Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

~George C. Williams

Topics: Anything Avoid Evolving Extinction Human Most Otherwise Special Threatened

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Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.

~George M. Church

Topics: Conservation Critically Elephants Extinction Finite Important Means Must Ongoing Other Preventing Priorities Resources Set Species Threatened

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