Extinction


The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History
Last Chance to See
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals
Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record
Dodo: A Brief History
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future
Migrations
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
The Ends of the World
The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink
The Big Cats and Their Fossil Relatives by Alan TurnerMammoths, Sabertooths, and Hominids by Jordi AgustíSabertooth by Mauricio AntónDogs by Xiaoming WangThe Cave Bear Story by Björn Kurtén
Prehistoric Mammals in Nonfiction
41 books — 18 voters
I Am Legend by Richard MathesonThe Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas AdamsThe Search for WondLa by Tony DiTerlizziLife As We Knew It by Susan Beth PfefferThe Last Human by Lee Bacon
Last Human(s)
42 books — 18 voters

Technological Slavery by Theodore John KaczynskiAnti-Tech Revolution by Theodore John KaczynskiIndustrial Society and Its Future by Theodore John KaczynskiWilding by Isabella TreeFeral by George Monbiot
Rewilding
80 books — 55 voters

Gary L. Francione
I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to be clear about that, and advocate for no use. Although rape and child molestation are ubiquitous, we do not have campaigns for “humane” rape or “humane” child molestation. We condemn it all. We should do the same with respect to animal exploitation. Second, animal welfare reform does not provide significant protection for animal interests. Animals are chattel property; t ...more
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.
Neil deGrasse Tyson, The Sky Is Not the Limit: Adventures of an Urban Astrophysicist

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