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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.15 — 80,815 ratings — published 2014
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,410 ratings — published 1990
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,724 ratings — published 1996
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.22 — 743 ratings — published 2001
Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.35 — 425 ratings — published 2021
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 282 ratings — published 2013
Dodo: A Brief History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.93 — 87 ratings — published 2002
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,387 ratings — published 2021
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.11 — 110,326 ratings — published 2020
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,572 ratings — published 2021
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.30 — 6,252 ratings — published 2017
The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.26 — 241 ratings — published 2016
Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.54 — 2,006 ratings — published 2013
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 456 ratings — published 2000
Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species Are Being Rescued from the Brink (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,429 ratings — published 2009
Extinct Birds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.48 — 54 ratings — published 1988
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.46 — 37,431 ratings — published 2022
The Insect Crisis: The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,465 ratings — published 2022
Eating to Extinction: The World's Rarest Foods and Why We Need to Save Them (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,710 ratings — published 2021
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,000 ratings — published 2021
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.05 — 88 ratings — published
Aviary Wonders Inc. Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.96 — 523 ratings — published 2014
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 381 ratings — published 2014
When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,552 ratings — published 2003
Can We Save the Tiger? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,237 ratings — published 2011
Beasts of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.25 — 9,730 ratings — published 2023
Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.15 — 285 ratings — published
Hurricane Lizards and Plastic Squid: The Fraught and Fascinating Biology of Climate Change (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,781 ratings — published 2021
Venomous Lumpsucker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.81 — 7,053 ratings — published 2022
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,145 ratings — published 2022
The Last Days of the Dinosaurs: An Asteroid, Extinction, and the Beginning of Our World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,244 ratings — published 2022
The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 185,633 ratings — published 1995
They Came from the Bronx (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 48 ratings — published 2001
Moonbird: A Year on the Wind with the Great Survivor B95 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.91 — 2,093 ratings — published 2012
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,541 ratings — published 2013
The Day the World Ended (Extinction, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.94 — 266 ratings — published 2011
Generation A (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.52 — 7,729 ratings — published 2009
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,661 ratings — published 2007
The Ghost with Trembling Wings: Science, Wishful Thinking, and the Search for Lost Species (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.29 — 363 ratings — published 2002
The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals Died Out and We Survived (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 981 ratings — published 2009
Who Killed the Great Auk? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.50 — 24 ratings — published 2001
Prehistoric Life: The Definitive Visual History of Life on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.52 — 614 ratings — published 2009
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.89 — 489 ratings — published 2005
Seeking the Sacred Raven: Politics and Extinction on a Hawaiian Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.83 — 42 ratings — published 2006
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species Is on the Edge of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.65 — 431 ratings — published 2025
Extinction Crisis (Extinction, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,879 ratings — published 2018
The Last Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.38 — 7,149 ratings — published 1826
Thylacine : The Tragic Tale of the Tasmanian Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 193 ratings — published 2003
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.68 — 190 ratings — published 2016
The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.37 — 321 ratings — published
“Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know why. Some by wanton extinction, some through natural catastrophe, some destroyed by meteorites and asteroids. In the light of these mass extinctions it really does seem unreasonable to suppose that Homo sapiens should be exempt. Our species will have been one of the shortest-lived of all, a mere blink, you may say, in the eye of time.”
― The Children of Men
― The Children of Men
“The notion that we should promote “happy” or “humane” exploitation as “baby steps” ignores that welfare reforms do not result in providing significantly greater protection for animal interests; in fact, most of the time, animal welfare reforms do nothing more than make animal exploitation more economically productive by focusing on practices, such as gestation crates, the electrical stunning of chickens, or veal crates, that are economically inefficient in any event. Welfare reforms make animal exploitation more profitable by eliminating practices that are economically vulnerable. For the most part, those changes would happen anyway and in the absence of animal welfare campaigns precisely because they do rectify inefficiencies in the production process. And welfare reforms make the public more comfortable about animal exploitation. The “happy” meat/animal products movement is clear proof of that.
We would never advocate for “humane” or "happy” human slavery, rape, genocide, etc. So, if we believe that animals matter morally and that they have an interest not only in not suffering but in continuing to exist, we should not be putting our time and energy into advocating for “humane” or “happy” animal exploitation.”
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We would never advocate for “humane” or "happy” human slavery, rape, genocide, etc. So, if we believe that animals matter morally and that they have an interest not only in not suffering but in continuing to exist, we should not be putting our time and energy into advocating for “humane” or “happy” animal exploitation.”
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