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The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.15 — 79,382 ratings — published 2014
Last Chance to See (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.32 — 26,111 ratings — published 1990
The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinction (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.29 — 8,672 ratings — published 1996
A Gap in Nature: Discovering the World's Extinct Animals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.22 — 738 ratings — published 2001
Gone: A Search for What Remains of the World’s Extinct Creatures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.37 — 401 ratings — published 2021
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 279 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 — 13,149 ratings — published 2021
Migrations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.12 — 101,924 ratings — published 2020
Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,537 ratings — published 2021
The Ends of the World (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.29 — 6,123 ratings — published 2017
The Tragic Tale of the Great Auk (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.25 — 238 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 — 1,992 ratings — published 2013
Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.22 — 453 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 — 1,413 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 — 35,578 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 — 1,385 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 4.30 — 2,631 ratings — published 2021
Silent Earth: Averting the Insect Apocalypse (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,919 ratings — published 2021
Imagining Extinction: The Cultural Meanings of Endangered Species (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.02 — 84 ratings — published
Aviary Wonders Inc. Spring Catalog and Instruction Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 523 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 — 1,541 ratings — published 2003
Can We Save the Tiger? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,236 ratings — published 2011
Extinctions: How Life Survives, Adapts and Evolves (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.13 — 239 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 — 1,734 ratings — published 2021
Venomous Lumpsucker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.81 — 6,684 ratings — published 2022
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,780 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 — 4,020 ratings — published 2022
The Lost World (Jurassic Park, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 181,194 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 — 2,086 ratings — published 2012
A Feathered River Across the Sky: The Passenger Pigeon's Flight to Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 368 ratings — published 2014
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 1,525 ratings — published 2013
The Day the World Ended (Extinction, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 264 ratings — published 2011
Generation A (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.52 — 7,709 ratings — published 2009
The World Without Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.81 — 43,385 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 4.30 — 358 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 — 973 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 — 609 ratings — published 2009
Carnivorous Nights: On the Trail of the Tasmanian Tiger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.88 — 472 ratings — published 2005
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 3.68 — 346 ratings — published 2025
Extinction Crisis (Extinction, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.21 — 2,850 ratings — published 2018
The Last Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.38 — 6,927 ratings — published 1826
Thylacine : The Tragic Tale of the Tasmanian Tiger (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.95 — 189 ratings — published 2003
Beasts of the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,084 ratings — published 2023
Citizen Scientist: Searching for Heroes and Hope in an Age of Extinction (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 3.68 — 187 ratings — published 2016
The Missing Lynx: The Past and Future of Britain's Lost Mammals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.38 — 308 ratings — published
The Rise and Reign of the Mammals: A New History, from the Shadow of the Dinosaurs to Us (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as extinction)
avg rating 4.37 — 7,829 ratings — published 2022
“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm to shift.
We must be clear that veganism is the unequivocal baseline of anything that deserves to be called an “animal rights” movement. If “animal rights” means anything, it means that we cannot morally justify any animal exploitation; we cannot justify creating animals as human resources, however “humane” that treatment may be.
We must stop thinking that people will find veganism “daunting” and that we have to promote something less than veganism. If we explain the moral ideas and the arguments in favor of veganism clearly, people will understand. They may not all go vegan immediately; in fact, most won’t. But we should always be clear about the moral baseline. If someone wants to do less as an incremental matter, let that be her/his decision, and not something that we advise to do. The baseline should always be clear. We should never be promoting “happy” or “humane” exploitation as morally acceptable.”
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We must be clear that veganism is the unequivocal baseline of anything that deserves to be called an “animal rights” movement. If “animal rights” means anything, it means that we cannot morally justify any animal exploitation; we cannot justify creating animals as human resources, however “humane” that treatment may be.
We must stop thinking that people will find veganism “daunting” and that we have to promote something less than veganism. If we explain the moral ideas and the arguments in favor of veganism clearly, people will understand. They may not all go vegan immediately; in fact, most won’t. But we should always be clear about the moral baseline. If someone wants to do less as an incremental matter, let that be her/his decision, and not something that we advise to do. The baseline should always be clear. We should never be promoting “happy” or “humane” exploitation as morally acceptable.”
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“Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.”
― The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
― The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God
