Word: speciesism
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When 45 million people have broken the law, the law may not be an ass but it is certainly an endangered species. Most countries still hang tough on hard drugs like cocaine and heroin, but when it comes to grass, they go with the flow. Despite lingering strict anticannabis laws...
I can't help thinking of attacks by sharks as their revenge for our overfishing some shark species to the point of near extinction and for entangling and slowly killing them with factory-fishing drift nets that sweep the seas. GILBERT SCHWARTZ Aventura, Fla.
As a scuba diver, I have had frequent and always exhilarating encounters with several species of sharks--sometimes as many as 30. As an astronomer, I have commonly and excitedly viewed dozens of beautiful shooting stars. Being bitten by a shark or struck by a meteorite would be extremely serious...
Vitousek, 52, didn't plan to spend his life tending to the planet's health; he began as a political science major. While a student at Amherst, however, he wrote a thesis on land use and stumbled across a book on biological invasions of pristine places. A native of Hawaii...
Now, decades later, the field is trying to catch up with him. Vitousek's studies of the Hawaiian Islands--the world's most remote archipelago and a place humans discovered only 1,500 years ago--have yielded some intriguing findings. While the arrival of new species has had the greatest...