Word: extinctionism
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At one point I interview the head of the Voluntary Human Extinction Movement. This secret longing is no longer a secret to him. He's a sweet and thoughtful, intelligent guy, a schoolteacher, who?s already in mourning for the human race; he believes its gone wrong. We were great...
Now the bears face another threat. On Feb. 6 - three days before FWS's new deadline - the Minerals Management Service (MMS), also part of the Interior Department, plans to lease 30 million acres for oil and gas drilling in the Chukchi Sea bordering Alaska, where one-fifth of the world...
That's a positive spin, but the reality is that FWS will only have limited ability to deal with global warming - and the polar bear is only the first of countless millions of species that could be forced into extinction because of rising temperatures. Conservationists are facing the depressing possibility...
Rabinowitz makes clear just how painful the process was in his new book, Life in the Valley of Death. (Watch Alan Rabinowitz talk about the Hukawng Valley reserve, and the changing nature of wildlife conservation, on the new video Greencast.) First there was the forbidding Hukawng Valley itself, a remote...
Yet it's Johnson's compulsive honesty that's more likely to torpedo his quest for high office. He says what he's thinking, even when it's shockingly, hilariously off message. He recently incurred the wrath of Conservative colleagues by urging support for Hillary Clinton on the premise "Vote...