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"Bauer, of Creighton University, Nebraska, who reported on October 26, 1934: "Due to susceptibility to tuberculosis and other diseases the average life span of the Eskimo of Alaska is only 20 years and their race is doomed to extinction within a few generations unless modern medical science comes to their aid." The Masai tribes of East Africa live on mostly cows' blood and milk, and meat. Their average life span is 60. A typical 45-year-old man looks about 20 to 30 years older." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Replacing these many "heirloom" varieties with a few industrially bred ones not only allowed for the creation of the monocultures that corporate farms spray so vehemently to defend, it also drove many heirloom varieties into extinction. As we move away from petrochemical-based agriculture, we need to both rediscover and reinvent heirlooms. Smart breeding could do even more, though, than help great-grandma's tomatoes make it through a scorching summer: it could deliver the kinds of plants we need to regenerate farmland." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"One of the new studies concludes that the "natural world is experiencing the sixth, major extinction event in its history." [Lovell 2004] This time though, the cause of the extinctions is not extraterrestrial. According to one of the study's authors, Jeremy Thomas: "As far as we can tell this one is caused by one animal organism—man." Walking the Talk of Cells In my years of teaching in medical school, I had come to realize that medical students in an academic setting are more competitive and backbiting than a truckload of lawyers." - Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Get the book.)

"Because of its light salmon color, the wood of the tree was once in such demand for the making of walking sticks and umbrellas that the tree became in danger of extinction. It has also been used to make magic wands, burned as an incense to attract prosperity, and worn in medicine bags as a protective amulet. A dish of allspice berries placed in a sick room can lift the patient's spirit and help prevent the spread of infection. Allspice essential oil is used in perfumery, mens' cologne, and mouthwash." - Brigitte Mars, A.H.G., The Desktop Guide to Herbal Medicine: The Ultimate Multidisciplinary Reference to the Amazing Realm of Healing Plants, in a Quick-study, One-stop Guide (Get the book.)

"However, it has been brought close to extinction by deforestation and over-exploitation. Conservation schemes have been proposed, but it is too early to be certain whether the species can be saved from extinction. AGRICULTURAL AND BIOTECHNOLOGICAL PRODUCTION Most important medicinal plants arc now produced under controlled agricultural conditions (Franz 1999). Such production systems require certain conditions for each species with respect to: • Temperature and annual course of temperature. • Rainfall (if it is not possible to irrigate the fields). • Soil characteristics and quality." - Dr. Michael Heinrich, Joanne Barnes, Simon Gibbons and Elizabeth M. Williamson, Fundamentals of Pharmacognosy and Phytotherapy (Get the book.)

"It turned out that the meat of the flying fox bat was a prized Chamorro delicacy, so much so that the local animal population was hunted to the point of extinction in the years preceding the decline in the Parkinsonism epidemic. Cycad served as a key natural food source for the Guam flying fox; furthermore, BMAA toxin bio-accumulated in the animal's flesh.90 This accumulation occurred without apparent harm to the bat but seemed to explain the dire consequences for humans higher up the food chain." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"The plant is a protected species and is in danger of extinction. Preparation: To prepare an infusion, pour boiling water over 2 to 10 g drug and strain after 10 minutes. Daily Dosage: The average daily dose is 3 g drug. The dosage of the infusion when used as a broncholytic is 1 cup, 3 to 4 times daily. literature Bendz G, Lindberg G. Note on the Pigments of Some Drosera Species. Acta Chem Scand. 24; 1082-1083. 1970 Budzianowski J. Naphthohydroquinone glucosides of Drosera rotundifolia and D. intermedia from in vitro cultures. Phytochemistry 42 (4); 1145-1147. 1996 Budzianowski J." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"The difference between a feeling therapy and a cognitive one is the difference between cure and extinction of a symptom—between cure and palliation, cure and denial, between cure and self-deception, and between appearances and essences. It is the difference between emotions and ideas, of a holistic approach versus the treatment of fragments. It is the difference between a therapy of recall and a therapy of reliving. (We need to keep in mind that real remembering is something organic; we remember with all of us.) The danger in therapy is what the patient cannot recall." - Dr. Arthur Janov, Primal Healing: Access the Incredible Power of Feelings to Improve Your Health (Get the book.)

"In North America too, one degree of climate change could push a threatened species over the brink to extinction - and this one is cute and furry. According to WWF, pikas - small, hamsterlike creatures with rounded ears and bushy whiskers - are the first mammal to be endangered by climate change." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Cold moss and lichen tundra is almost driven to extinction, with remnants clinging to life only on the highest mountains and remotest northern islands. The permafrost boundary retreats hundreds of kilometres to the north, destabilising forests, buildings and mountainsides alike as the ground thaws out. Again the culprit is the Arctic amplifier' of global warming, which means that a temperature rise of two degrees globally would lead to anything from 3.2°C to 6.6°C warming in the Arctic by 2050. The speed of the transition would be at minimum half a degree per decade, and at maximum up to 1." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.) "Although warm-loving species will benefit and move north, cold-adapted Arctic animals and plants will find their survival threatened, and extinction will loom. The landscape itself will change. A recent study simulated the effect of 2°C global warming on vegetation types in the Arctic, and found that tundra almost completely disappears, squeezed closer and closer to the northern coasts of Alaska, Canada and Siberia as the forests march northward. Trees even invade Greenland." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Johnson, Darwin On Trial Based on the fossil record, the general picture of plant and animal history is a burst of general body forms followed by stasis or extinction, We may hypothesize that relationships between these forms come from common ancestors, or from ancestors which were transformed by some means other than the accumulation of small mutations or from some process altogether beyond the scope of human understanding at this point." - David Wolfe, The Sunfood Diet Success System (Get the book.)

"Despite the occasional mass extinction, life and soils symbiotically grew and diversified through climate changes and shifting arrangements of continents. As soil completes the cycle of life by decomposing and recycling organic matter and regenerating the capacity to support plants, it serves as a filter that cleanses and converts dead stuff into nutrients that feed new life. Soil is the interface between the rock that makes up our planet and the plants and animals that live off sunlight and nutrients leached out of rocks." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"Helens in Washington erupts at 8:32 PST, killing 61 people and devastating a large region around the volcano Walter Alvarez, working with Luis Alvarez, Frank Asaro, and Helen Michel, discovers a thin layer of clay at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary, a time marked by mass extinctions, including the extinction of the dinosaurs; the clay is enriched with the heavy metal iridium, leading the team to speculate that a giant body from space collided with Earth, causing the layer (later found to be worldwide) and the extinctions Leonard M. Adleman and Robert S." - Alexander Hellemans and Brian Bunch, The Timetables of Science: A Chronology of the Most Important People and Events in the History of Science (Get the book.)

"Freud made some cogent observations on this latter point in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, although he was not aware of the full implications of what he wrote: The early blossoming of infantile sexual life is doomed to extinction because its wishes are incompatible with reality and with the inadequate state of development which the child has reached. That blossoming comes to an end in the most distressing circumstances and to the accompaniment of the most painful feelings." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.) "I would add that from a Darwinian perspective the ego evolved out of the id to save it from the extinction suffered by less fortunate evolutionary cousins. One might say the ego developed in response to the overarching evolutionary imperative: to survive. Freud understood the need to observe and analyze the ego. He called it "the sense organ of the entire apparatus." The ego interprets the world for the id and protects it from that world. To fulfill its function, it must be rational, logical, and aware of time. But, of course, the ego is also aware of the id's demands and reactions." - John E. Sarno, M.D., The Divided Mind: The Epidemic of Mindbody Disorders (Get the book.)

"What s the Story? There are over three hundred species of agave plants. Tequilana, or blue agave, is the most widely known and available. The name agave is of Greek origin and means "noble" or "illustrious." Agave goes by many other names including maguey, mescal, lechuguilla, amole, and century plant. Though over 200 million blue agave plants are grown in several regions of Mexico, only a small percentage of them are used for agave nectar production." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"Like the origin of life, the mechanism of general anaesthesia, the extinction of dinosaurs, the kinship of the Basque language, it is a scientific Sword in the Stone. And, great and small, Nobel Prize winners and complete unknowns, experts and beginners, many have come up to the stone and * Giorgio Careri, of the University of Rome, who told me this story. heaved on the sword and come away with nothing but a sore back. Once in a while some claim to see the sword budge, but the heavenly light still hasn't shone on anyone, the prize is still there for the taking." - Luca Turin, The Secret of Scent: Adventures in Perfume and the Science of Smell (Get the book.)

"A report published by the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization in 2004 stated that "28 percent of fish stocks worldwide are either overfished or near-ing extinction"; another 47 percent are "near the limits of sustainability." Farming fish and seafood through aquaculture has taken off, but fish feedlots generally take their cue from cattle feedlots—they are over-crowded, soaked in chemicals, and polluting. Plans are being implemented to recover fisheries in many parts of the world." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "In making use of 1,500 varieties of African rice that were facing extinction, the NERICA initiative has helped to preserve genetic lines at risk as farmers shift to higher-yield Asian varieties. And NERICA reaches beyond Africa: 42 million acres (17 million hectares) of rice in Asia and 9 million acres (4 million hectares) in Latin America grow in conditions similar to West Africa's. as & jc The Future of Aquaculture mmmm Dr. Martin P. Schreibman has been growing tilapia for years in tanks in his lab at the Aquatic Research and Environmental Assessment Center of Brooklyn College. " - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.) "Species that evolved over millions of years are being driven into extinction. The most troubling signs have to do with our climate. Every time we drive a car, we're participating in the largest planetary experiment ever conducted—we're changing the climate, acidifying the oceans, melting the ice caps, and generally wreaking havoc with the very systems that support life on earth. That said, the same tools that are leading scientists to sound alarms are giving us a better understanding of how to begin tackling the problems." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"By analogy with a typical trace, I shall call a portent typical (without prejudice as to how typical it really is) if it is a feature of a physical system, X, that exists for a while in advance of an interaction between X and a second system Y This feature is extinguished when the interaction occurs, and its extinction is causally related to the interaction. From this feature of X, someone with the appropriate background knowledge can predict the occurrence of this interaction, and the involvement, therefore, of the second system, Y. Here is an example, again involving a dog." - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.)

"As the ecologist and pika enthusiast Dr Erik Beever puts it: 'We're witnessing some of the first contemporary examples of global warming apparently contributing to the local extinction of an American mammal at sites across an entire eco-region.' It has become something of a cliche to talk about the 'canary in the coal mine' when discussing climate impacts on the natural world - but one group of animals more than any other exemplifies this point: the amphibians." - Mark Lynas, Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet (Get the book.)

"Even as the Earth heats up and the threat of human extinction hangs over us like the sword of Damocles, there is another kind of global warming—that of the human heart. We are living at a time in history when the evolutionary shift is rapidly taking all of us from the materialistic, mechanistic age to one of mindful awareness and enlightenment. To hasten this we must change our relationship with money. Not that money in and of itself is bad, but it should not and cannot be the primary motivator of our decisions." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"If you're wondering why you should care less about visuomotor speed, this is one of the qualities that determines whether you react quickly enough in emergency situations to save yourself from permanent extinction. When some kamikaze driver runs a red light and speeds into your direct line of travel, a deficit in reaction time could quite literally mean the difference between getting home safely or being fatally maimed beyond recognition." - Anthony Colpo, The Great Cholesterol Con: Why Everything You've been Told About Cholesterol, Diet and Heart Disease is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Endangered Species Act to bring back animals from the brink of extinction. Thus, the effort has gone global with all nations around the planet participating with amazing success. Nearly all of the 1,000 species endangered or threatened have made a recovery, including salmon, steelhead trout, grizzly bear, whooping crane, jaguar, bald eagles, gray wolf, American alligator, Sumatran rhino and numerous other less known, but crucial members of the environmental balance. Natural diversity is restored." - Jackie Lapin, The Art of Conscious Creation: How You Can Transform the World (Get the book.)

"On the other hand, I also firmly believe there's a possibility that we will elect an overall shift by making little shifts in our lives, and that we will be able to prevent the extinction of human life on this planet. Human beings will be able to rise in consciousness in collected consciousness as a species, not just as a few with a heightened consciousness. I wouldn't do the work I do if I didn't have that hope and that possibility." Check Please! Taking charge of your eating habits is not as hard as it sounds. There are thousands of healthy, tasty products on the marker." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"Rudin: Rudin, who early in his career had, according to a historian, "constantly proposed a 'merciless extinction' of patients with dementia praecox [schizophrenia],"5 co-authored the official German publication in support of the 1933 sterilization law.6 In 1934, Rtidin recognized that "only through the political 1. Cardno & McGuffin, 1999, p. 344. 2. Joseph, 2004b. 3. Gottesman, 1991, p. 207. 4. Ibid., pp. 195-196. 5. Peters, 1999, p. 89. work of Adolf Hitler, and only through him has our more than thirty-year-old dream become reality: to be able to put race hygiene into action." - Jay Joseph, The Missing Gene: Psychiatry, Heredity, and the Fruitless Search for Genes (Get the book.)

"The thought of extinction and that it might be occurring in my lifetime was a totally mind-boggling concept. So that was the catalyst for my environmental interest, leading me to become involved with several nonprofits later." Nell reports that her organic food company was inspired by moving to the beach town of Santa Cruz, California. "I "had never seen a farmer's market that was 80 percent organic before then. I was immediately inspired. Then I just had to convince Dad, which was a little more complex." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.) "In my search to answer this, to make a very long story short, I began to see that the meaning of our power is the conscious evolution of our species on the one hand, or devolution and extinction on the other. "When I say 'conscious evolution,' I mean evolving our own consciousness from passively receiving the way things are to actively guiding ourselves and our social evolution. I think this is the evolution from unconscious devolution to conscious choice. We're facing a mounting whole-system crisis because every single social system is breaking down." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

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