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This is not yet sufficient to equal one of the so-called ‘Big Five’ mass-extinction events that took place in the geological past, when three-quarters or more of all species became extinct. Taking mammals and birds together, we are ‘only’ ...more
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David Quammen
“The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast—above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill—has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.”
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“I confess that I admired him, even though he was my enemy. It is always better to admire the best among our foes rather than the worst among our friends.”
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