Word: extinctionism
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None of us realized it at the time, but these machines, hulking Royals and sleek electrics alike, were all on the verge of extinction. Apple and Commodore and Radio Shack had already started selling small computers to consumers, but it was the release of the IBM PC in the summer...
3 million Varieties of seed--including rice, barley and fruit-bearing plants--that Norway plans to freeze in a Noah's Ark of crops to prevent their extinction in any future global cataclysm
The question is at least as old as Socrates: if we know what the right thing to do is, why do we not do it? It's an especially acute question when applied to global warming. The science showing that carbon-dioxide emissions are already changing the planet's climate...
For decades, the 30-second television spot has been king of the advertising jungle - the surefire way to shift that soap powder or boost that burger chain. But now, although not facing imminent extinction, the format is beginning to look as obsolete as the black-and-white TV set. According...
There are, by one returning exile's count, 238 dance halls and karaoke bars along the main streets of Lhasa, and 658 brothels. Plastic palm trees and mushrooms that play pop songs dot the shiny boulevards. And where in 1978 there were fewer than 500 individually run enterprises in the...