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Some are actually on the brink of extinction.
About seven years ago, they faced extinction, because Israel announced it would build a separation barrier, and part of this barrier would be built on top of the village.
The Tasmanian devil has shown us that, not only can cancer be a contagious disease, but it can also threaten an entire species with extinction.
It spreads through the population, has mutations that allow it to evade the immune system, and it's the only cancer that we know of that's threatening an entire species with extinction.
Any time there is a program that's better at surviving in this world, due to whatever mutation it has acquired, it is going to spread over the others and drive the others to extinction.
The title of my talk: Shape-shifting Dinosaurs: The cause of a premature extinction.
For those of you who don't know, we're in the middle of the sixth mass extinction.
So what it tells us, actually, is that there's actually a risk of extinction of this species because its population is so small.
The monarch butterfly could be one of the 20 to 50 percent of all species that the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates will be ticketed for extinction by the end of the century if we stay on business-as-usual fossil fuel use.
A large fraction of species will be committed to extinction.
So we talked about extinction as being one and the same as the need to create an alluring, infinitely creative future.
From these 16, 11 of them are facing a high risk of extinction.
We have eight species of vultures that occur in Kenya, of which six are highly threatened with extinction.
Now, extinction is a different kind of death.
And I really think there's a fundamental difference, if you sort of look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilization, that's out there exploring the stars, on multiple planets, and I think that's really exciting, compared with one where we are forever confined to Earth until some eventual extinction event.
So they're looking at ways to reduce the risk of extinction.
Here's one risk of extinction that we all became aware of recently, when an asteroid passed close to our planet.
I do want to test this question we're all interested in: Does extinction have to be forever?
It makes me very sad because, while it's a fascinating animal, and it's amazing to think that we had the technology to film it before it actually plunged off that cliff of extinction, we didn't, unfortunately, at this same time, have a molecule of concern about the welfare for this species.
But I also have colleagues who are fine with AI taking over and even causing human extinction, as long as we feel the the AIs are our worthy descendants, like our children.
Also, shouldn't those people who don't want human extinction have a say in the matter, too?
It could enable brutal, global dictatorship with unprecedented inequality, surveillance and suffering, and maybe even human extinction.
A quote by Bertrand Russell, "All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined to extinction.
We are the sixth extinction because we left no safe space for millions of species to sustainably coexist.
We're here living in the eye of a great storm of extinction where half the species on the planet could be gone by the end of the century, and so why is it that we come to care about some of those species and not others?
We call it the Cretaceous extinction event.
Now the third area is the one that I want to focus on the most, and that's the category of existential risks: events like a nuclear war or a global pandemic that could permanently derail civilization or even lead to the extinction of the human race.
So we surely, in view of those immense stakes, shouldn't accept even a one in a billion risk that human extinction would foreclose this immense potential.
These are the asteroids we may one day send spacecraft to, to mine them for minerals, but they're also the asteroids that may one day impact the Earth, like happened 60 million years ago with the extinction of the dinosaurs, or just at the beginning of the last century, when an asteroid wiped out almost 1,000 square miles of Siberian forest, or even just last year, as one burnt up over Russia, releasing the energy of a small nuclear bomb.
A three degree centigrade climate change rise that will result in 50 percent species extinction.
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