“To future geologists, then, the huge wave of extinctions a few thousand years ago as First Peoples spread out into new continents and remote archipelagoes will be all but indinstinguishable from the current wave of destruction loosed by modernity and its growing appetites.” HumanityExtinction Book:The Ends of the World Source: The Ends of the World
“To understand what happened in the oceans at the end of the Triassic, it's useful to look at modern coral reef systems, which have shrunk by perhaps 30 percent since the early 1980s (an appalling, geologically instantaneous lightning strike).” Climate ChangeExtinctionCoral Reef Book:The Ends of the World Source: The Ends of the World
“We take for granted the shape of our world and the position of the continents— the familiar geography that seems as eternal as the order of the planets. But this arrangement is temporary: it isn't how the planet has been and it isn't how it will be.” EarthScienceGeologyClimate Science Book:The Ends of the World Source: The Ends of the World