November 5, 2015 - 12:02
{chapter thirteen}
- Reconstruction efforts criticism
- dealing with the consequences
- (instead of dealing with the causes)
- Prevention efforts criticism
- dealing with the causes
- (but humans are taking extinction so seriously that they're willing to go to extremes in order to keep it from happening)
- Some think that humanity will also be a victim
- "Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims."
- Others think that we can outrun the extinction
- "As long as we keep exploring, humanity is going to survive"
- Humans now have this power -- we decide "which evolutionary pathways will remain open and which will forever be closed"
- Most important to remember: Even after humans are gone, the sixth extinction will continue to affect the ecological earth