Extinction in sentence

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Altogether, Fahrenheit 451 is a portrait of independent thought on the brink of extinction - and a parable about a society which is complicit in its own combustion.

Furthermore does hardly anyone speak about the fact that we are in the midst of the sixth mass extinction, with up to 200 species going extinct every single day, that the extinction rate today is between 1,000 and 10,000 times higher than what is seen as normal.

Are we knowingly causing a mass extinction?

And animals, almost on the brink of extinction, can be given a second chance.

You are here because of golden opportunities made possible by mass extinction.

The extinction was a filter.

However, it is already clear that your ancestors' survival through mass extinction, and their responses in the aftermath made you who you are today.

And I'll illustrate that five-point framework by the extinction of the Greenland Norse society.

So that's how the five-part framework is relevant to the collapse and eventual extinction of the Greenland Norse.

Extinction can come slowly, but sometimes it arrives fast.

And we now think that a low metabolism may well be key to surviving extinction.

But there's one thing that's even more important, and I think that's extinction.

But we haven't witnessed a big asteroid impact, so this is a type of neo-catastrophism, and it took about 20 years for the scientific establishment to finally come to grips: yes, we were hit; and yes, the effects of that hit caused a major mass extinction.

They range from 450 million years ago to the last, the K-T, number four, but the biggest of all was the P, or the Permian extinction, sometimes called the mother of all mass extinctions.

In 1990, working on the K-T extinction for 10 years, I moved to South Africa to begin work twice a year in the great Karoo desert.

And I worked on this Permian extinction, camping by this Boer graveyard for months at a time.

At the end of the Permian, at many of these mass extinction boundaries, this is what we find: isorenieratene.

This was the poorest district in the whole province and it was a total extinction of wildlife.

Deforestation, extinction and climate change are all global problems that we can solve by giving value to our species and ecosystems and by working together with the local people who live next to them.

We're in the midst of the sixth mass extinction.

We're accelerating into an extinction emergency, one that my field has so far failed abysmally to tackle.

But does the earth have to wait for our extinction as a species?

Somewhere around China, a fish developed jaws, and its descendants drove jawless fishes, sea scorpions and branching plankton to extinction.

But then the glaciers came back again, and it was mass extinction number two.

But then, volcanoes erupted all over Siberia, everything almost died and it was mass extinction number three.

But then, Pangaea started to split apart, forming a sea of lava that would one day become the Atlantic Ocean, spewing toxic gas into the atmosphere and mass extinction number four.

What will happen after the next mass extinction?

That indeed, a mass extinction was underway in our fields, in our agricultural system.

And that this mass extinction was taking place with very few people noticing and even fewer caring.

And then there are just daily disasters that take place in these buildings, financial problems and mismanagement and equipment failures, and all kinds of things, and every time something like this happens, it means extinction.

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