“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!” StillsDifferentEarthAnimalMillionsRecordsFiveAliveThousandSurvivalPercentPlantSpeciesBillionsFiftyFortyOne Time Author:David M. Raup
“Pain is the basic mechanism built into us by millions of years of evolution which safeguards us by warning when something threatens our survival.” YearsPainMillionsEvolutionSurvivalBuiltWarningMechanism Book:Starship Troopers Source: Starship Troopers
“I think the idea that television has evolved to this place of real thematic richness and the fact that you no longer have to get 10 million people to watch your show in order to propagate its survival are the best things that have ever happened to storytelling in this medium.” PeopleThinkingIdeasRealFactsShowsOrderWatchesMillionsHappenedTelevisionSurvivalStorytellingMediumsBest ThingsRichnessThematic Author:Damon Lindelof
“Human beings are hardwired by however many millions or billions of years to orient toward their own survival. That's why we're tribal people. That's why we're prejudiced people. That's why we treat women as second-class citizens, that's why we are homophobic, and that's why we make religion a weapon to prove we're superior to other people.” PeopleYearsHumansHuman BeingsClassMillionsCitizensProveWeaponsSurvivalTreatsBillionsSuperiorsHomophobicSecond Class Citizens Author:John Shelby Spong
“We are in a survival mentality, and that's hard-wired into our humanity, because we are the winners of an evolutionary struggle of millions and millions and millions of years.” YearsHardHumanityMillionsStruggleSurvivalWinnerMentality Author:John Shelby Spong
“The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.” PeopleMillionsDependsSurvivalTradeSpeciesIllegalElephantsWildlifeTourismLivelihoodRhinos Author:Yaya Toure
“Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total global catastrophe. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature drop of twenty degrees—which would be a lot more devastating than it sounds. Within that hundred million will be thousands that could survive a global temperature rise of twenty degrees. But a community of a hundred species or a thousand species has almost no survival value at all.” Would BeValuesSoundCommunityMillionsThousandDegreesDiversitySurvivalHundredTwentiesSpeciesFactorsEcologyCatastropheTemperature Author:Daniel Quinn
“Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond.” IfsYearsHumansUseEarthWaterMillionsGoneAirEffectsOceanSurvivalDestructionSpeciesClimate ChangeFishesDrivenForestsPlentyAtmosphereSoilFuelChemistryChemicalsStakesToxicHolocaustCentsFossilsExtinctionFossil FuelEcologicalDump Author:David Suzuki
“The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.” IfsHumansMeanProblemEarthSocialRaceMillionsSurvivalSpeciesEnvironmentalClimate ChangeSolveBillionsHuman RaceGlobal WarmingExtinctionDwellingHomo Sapiens Author:Ingrid Newkirk
“Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.” NeedsLongCountryActionSocialTermMillionsSecurityBabySurvivalHungerOur CountryLong TermRetirementShoreSocial SecurityVergeBoomersBaby BoomerSecurity Systems Author:Kay Bailey Hutchison
“While I generally find that great myths are great precisely because they represent and embody great universal truths, the myth of romantic love is a dreadful lie. Perhaps it is a necessary lie in that it ensures the survival of the falling-in-love experience that traps us into marriage. But as a psychiatrist I weep in my heart almost daily for the ghastly confusion and suffering that this myth fosters. Millions of people waste vast amounts of energy desperately and futilely attempting to make the reality of their lives conform to the unreality of the myth.” PeopleLoveHeartRealityLyingSufferingFallEnergyLove IsMillionsAmountMy HeartWasteSurvivalUniversalFalling In LoveMythConfusionRomantic LoveTrapsConformAttemptingPsychiatristGhastlyUnrealityUniversal Truth Author:M. Scott Peck
“Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.” YearsLongStillsEnoughUseEarthPastNextDifficultTermChanceAbilitySpaceMillionsEnvironmentGrowingPlanetsThousandSurvivalHundredResourcesAdvantageInstinctIllPopulationSpreadSelfishDisasterCodeLong TermCarrieAggressiveInwardFinitePlanet EarthAbility To Change Author:Stephen Hawking
“The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.” PeopleIfsWorldGivingYearsHas BeensMightWould BeEarthLife IsNaturalMillionsPlanetsThousandSurvivalStrongerSpeciesEightBillionsHeightFollyCosmosFortyThousand YearsNatural WorldWipePlanet EarthBlinkLife Span Author:Charlotte Sophia Kasl