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"Amphibians began to colonize the land only after the Devonian extinction, 365 million years ago. And it was the major extinction of 248 million years ago that preceded the appearance of the first dinosaurs. The catastrophe that ended the dinosaurs' reign led in turn to the evolution of mammals. Small, rodent-like mammals did already exist, but had not evolved very fast. The fact that some of them lived in burrows probably helped them survive whatever environmental catastrophe befell the organisms of those times." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Other species went toward and into extinction through little or no fault of their own: the environment around them changed, or other species invaded their niche. We do not have more powerful species to contend with, but our environment is changing and may do so irreversibly. The planetary environment is changing because we are changing it. Homo the wise, the knower, is outsmarting himself. He is creating untenable conditions in the biosphere and stressful and potentially catastrophic conditions in the sociosphere. What makes Homo create such conditions?" - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Colder and longer winters could also have deepened the snow cover, leading, in turn, to a dramatic reduction, even the temporaiy extinction, of caribou in parts of southwestern Greenland. With their food base thus contracted, Norse fortunes declined rapidly. Malnutrition and premature deaths plagued even well-established settlements. Isolated communities became more vulnerable to attack from hostile Inuit groups. Meanwhile, the Inuit flourished in the cooler conditions, for they had adapted to Greenland's harsh and unpredictable environment for many thousands of years." - Brian Fagan, Floods, Famines, and Emperors: El Nino and the Fate of Civilizations (Get the book.)

"The question is: Evolution or extinction? A Chinese proverb warns, "If we do not change direction, we are likely to end up exactly where we are headed." Applied to today's world, this would be disastrous: • There is deepening insecurity in countries both rich and poor and greater propensity in many parts of the world to resort to terrorism, war, and other forms of violence. • Islamic fundamentalism is spreading throughout the Muslim world, neo-Nazi and other extremist movements are surfacing in Europe, and religious fanaticism is appearing the world over." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"After a mass extinction, things would have been very different. The living matrix of the biosphere would have changed profoundly. Most species that survived would have found themselves in circumstances to which they were not as well suited: sources of food may have disappeared, the climate may have changed, new dangers may have emerged. In this new ecological context, life would have been under renewed pressure to evolve. New adaptations would establish themselves quickly and new species would proliferate. In short, the curve of evolution would have leapt upward once more." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.) "And it was the major extinction of 248 million years ago that preceded the appearance of the first dinosaurs. The catastrophe that ended the dinosaurs' reign led in turn to the evolution of mammals. Small, rodent-like mammals did already exist, but had not evolved very fast. The fact that some of them lived in burrows probably helped them survive whatever environmental catastrophe befell the organisms of those times. Afterward, they evolved very rapidly, diversifying into the wealth of mammal species that we now know—including ourselves." - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Although extinction concerns have classified the fruit as vulnerable on the World Conservation Union's Red List, management efforts have been successful so far. The entire neighboring island of Curieuse, where the palm also grows, has been cordoned off as a nature reserve. The government maintains a database listing every coco-de-mer tree in the Seychelles, and it is the owners' responsibility to submit—under penalty of law—quarterly statements about each fruit's level of maturity After the fruits fall, their ivory is extracted." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"If these chemicals cause serious reproductive abnormalities and potential extinction in wildlife, what do they do to us? In 2002, the first nationwide study of man-made chemicals and hormones in 139 streams revealed that 80 percent of streams tested were contaminated. Several of the chemicals examined are known or suspected of disrupting the hormone systems of animals and people. Of these, only a small fraction have been regulated at all, much less tested for toxicity, persistence in the environment, or other harmful characteristics, such as hormone disruption." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"The answer lies in a neurological process called fear extinction. While we can't erase the original fear memory, we can essentially drown it out by creating a new memory and reinforcing it. By building up parallel circuitry to the fear memory, the brain creates a neutral alternative to the expected anxiety, learning that everything is OK. By wiring in the correct interpretation, the trigger is disconnected from the typical response, weakening the association between, say, seeing a spider and experiencing terror and a racing heart. Scientists call it reattribution." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

"Unlike in nature, where the consequence of "fitness" is the spread and dominance of a species and the extinction or mar-ginalization of others, the market myth tells us that in society there is a mechanism that distributes the benefits instead of having them accrue only to the fit. This is the free market, governed by what Adam Smith called the "invisible hand." It acts equitably: if I do well for myself, I benefit not only myself, my family, and my company, but also my community. Wealth "trickles down" from the rich to the poor: a rising tide lifts all boats." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"It cannot harm and may comfort and avoid the too quick extinction of opiate efficacy."67 Such sentiments, however, were by 1945 already the talk of a fading generation. Medicine was in the process of changing, transforming itself into a practice rooted in the laboratory. It was also in the first stages of claiming for itself an entirely new arsenal of pharmaceutical interventions, from new analgesics to new antibiotics." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"To save the Cavendish from viral extinction requires uncovering varieties that are resistant to the new virus. Unfortunately, as the search for these forgotten strains has gotten under way, researchers have discovered that many wild banana varieties have disappeared as a result of logging and mass urbanization. Fortunately, thanks to the efforts of several independent groups, numerous bananas from remote regions have been cataloged and backed up at seed banks around the world. The Thai Banana Club has been rescuing rare bananas from remaining forests and growing them all over the world." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Buddhism—2,500 years old compared to CBT's fifty—is based on the Four Noble Truths: (1) life is full of suffering; (2) the root cause of suffering is attachment to worldly things and worldly ideas; (3) it is possible to cease suffering, based on the extinction of and detachment from one's attachments; and (4) the pathway out of suffering is to follow the Eightfold Noble Path, which includes mindfulness and concentration. In its preoccupation with suffering and its relief, Buddhism has a natural resonance with mental health and psychiatry." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"Species are disappearing before they've ever been documented. But extinction is also a natural phenomenon. Ninety-nine point nine percent of species that ever lived are now extinct. Nearly all of them disappeared before humans were even around. We can only imagine what most of those species might have been—but we can also appreciate the abundance that's still all around us. Farmers help maintain diversity merely by growing certain varieties. David Giordano of Giordano Farms has saved Moorpark apricots by propagating them from the same rootstock his father used when growing them in the 1920s. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Bringing rare fruits home is a safety net against the pitfalls of extinction. Susan and Alan Carle have spent nearly three decades undergoing extensive collecting expeditions into endangered forests in order to protect disappearing species that they grow on their Australian property, called the Botanical Ark. Harold Olmo, known as the "Indiana Jones of viticulture" for his grape-collecting adventures in Afghanistan and Iran, once spent three days having his car pulled out of a twenty-five-foot gorge by nomads using camel-hair ropes." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Seen in this light, the nuclear threat, the greenhouse effect, the destruction of the rainforests, the wide-scale extinction of species, acid rain, soil erosion, the depletion of the ozone layer, the problem of atomic waste, pollution, the energy crisis, the economic crisis, the food crisis, the water crisis, the housing crisis, the sanitation crisis, and the many other crises that humanity faces are all symptoms of a deeper psychological crisis. The real crisis is in our thinking, in our perception of what it is we really want and how to go about getting it. Happiness ?" - Peter Russell, Waking Up In Time: Finding Inner Peace In Times of Accelerating Change (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, the alarming increase in the percentage of adults of childbear-ing age who are sterile, as high as 30% by some estimates, has some people thinking we may be on our way to extinction. Incidentally, Hallelujah Acres (see Chapter 12) has had great success in reversing sterility conditions with the living food diet in combination with other healthful living practices. It is well known that wild animals thrive on exclusively raw diets. Yet if you captured a wild animal and fed it a cooked meal, it would not die immediately." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"The "anaerobic" bacteria that had, until then, overwhelmingly comprised the planet's population, faced with extinction, were forever consigned to the remaining habitats without free oxygen, such as the ocean floor. Meanwhile, other bacteria had fixed nitrogen in the soil of the planet's surface, permitting the growth of still more photosynthesizing plants. In other respects, Earth was unrecognizable to anyone familiar with the modern globe, transformed by the planet's other great engine of change." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.) "Another 300 million years latet, the great saurians called dinosaurs appeared, and 60 million years after their extinction, a group of bipedal primates migrated out of East Africa to eventually discover language, fire, and the itch for empire. Which means that for nearly two billion years, bacteria were not only the lords of creation; they were creation itself." - William Rosen, Justinian's Flea: The First Great Plague and the End of the Roman Empire (Get the book.)

"The threat of extinction is real, but it is avoidable. At the critical phase of a Macroshift fresh opportunities open, including the opportunity to evolve. In this case the opportunity is not to evolve genetically, for we are not merely a biological species, but to evolve socially and culturally, to a new society and a new culture—to a new civilization. Evolution, whether in nature or in the human world, is characterized by certain basic features that recur independently of the nature of the things that evolve, and also of their particular time and place." - Ervin Laszlo, Quantum Shift in the Global Brain: How the New Scientific Reality Can Change Us and Our World (Get the book.)

"Each wave of extinction nearly wiped out all life on the planet. Some researchers believe, as I mentioned in Chapter 1, that we are "deep" into the sixth mass extinction. Unlike the others caused by galactic forces such as comets, the current extinction is being caused by a force much closer to home—humans. As you sit on your porch and watch the sunset, note its spectacular color. The beauty in the sky reflects the pollution in the air. As the world we know decays, the Earth promises us an even greater light show. Meanwhile we are leading lives without a moral context." - Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Get the book.)

"The therapeutic nihilism traditionally implied in the term "degenerative" is giving way to the dissection of the sequence of the molecular events that lead from the initial trigger to cellular extinction.21 Wow. So here in the most conservative medical journal, the Journal of the American Medical Association, we have a call to action to eliminate toxins and protect our brains through understanding the underlying causes of cellular breakdown." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"But, on the other hand, it would be no violation of the knowledge principle if it transpired that the dinosaurs had been rendered extinct by a vast nuclear explosion caused by a careless time-traveller setting out from 2169, even if it could be shown that the extinction of the dinosaurs was a necessary precondition for the evolution of humankind, and the consequent discovery, on earth, of nuclear energy." - Michael Lockwood, The Labyrinth of Time: Introducing the Universe (Get the book.)

"For example, one therapy—now threatened with extinction in the time-pressured world of managed care?consists of helping depressed people find meaning m their lives. Once, it was routinely accepted that meaninglessness was an important source of depression, but today, managed-care time restraints have resulted in denying and ignoring this reality. Historically, the mental health profession has been a joke of sorts when it comes to morale boosting. Specifically, I recall the old joke: "How many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb? Only one, but the light bulb must want to change." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"As we can see, it is extremely important to provide this kind of protection for traditional cultures because when these cultures are threatened with extinction, they cease to function as incubators of modernism and begin to instill fear and foment hostility toward all things modern, as has become the case in many Islamic countries. An integral world federation could effectively protect these earlier stages of development while also protecting modernism and postmodernism from regression, by implementing a tiered approach to membership in the world federation." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Some researchers believe, as I mentioned in Chapter 1, that we are "deep" into the sixth mass extinction. Unlike the others caused by galactic forces such as comets, the current extinction is being caused by a force much closer to home—humans. As you sit on your porch and watch the sunset, note its spectacular color. The beauty in the sky reflects the pollution in the air. As the world we know decays, the Earth promises us an even greater light show. Meanwhile we are leading lives without a moral context." - Bruce H. Lipton, The Biology Of Belief: Unleashing The Power Of Consciousness, Matter And Miracles (Get the book.)

"Modern herbal practitioners now prefer alternatives to goldenseal, since the plant is threatened with extinction due to overharvesting. Chamomile (page 656), high in the flavonoid (page 516) apigenin, may soothe injured and inflamed mucous membranes. In addition, a test tube study has shown that apigenin inhibits H. pylori?7 and chamazu-lene, another active ingredient in chamomile, reduces free radical activity,38 both potential advantages for people with gastritis. Human clinical trials are needed to confirm chamomile's effectiveness for treating gastritis." - Alan R. Gaby, M.D., Jonathan V. Wright, M.D., Forrest Batz, Pharm.D. Rick Chester, RPh., N.D., DipLAc. George Constantine, R.Ph., Ph.D. Linnea D. Thompson, Pharm.D., N.D., The Natural Pharmacy: Complete A-Z Reference to Natural Treatments for Common Health Conditions (Get the book.)

"I thought of myself as on the brink of psychic near extinction and nullification and that nothing good could happen. I guessed all throughout the life trip, I'd been one of those desperate seekers of inspiration of the successful comeback. Costa Rica was nothing, if not the ecological comeback kid of Planet Earth. "Where are you going?" A DFW skyhop picked me up in his electric cart. I boarded my flight, and we landed a few drinks later. I walked out of the terminal into the warm humid air. I saw Europeans, especially Germans, everywhere, more Europeans and Asians than Americans." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Pimm and Clinton Jenkins, conservation, ecology, and extinction investigators from the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences at Duke University, wrote that the world's three remaining tropical forests and twenty-five "hot spots" harbor "most of the world's species of plants and animals."44 Indeed, more than half the animal species in the world live in rain forests.45 Only a single square mile of Amazon rain forest is home to up to fifteen hundred species of butterfly." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The plant is a highly protected species and is in danger of extinction. Preparation: To prepare an infusion, pour boiling water over 1 to 2 g drug and strain after 10 minutes. Daily Dose: 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 Ayuga C et al, (1985) An R Acad Farm 51(2):321. Budzianowski J et al., Ellagic acid derivatives and further naphthoquinones from Dionea muscipula and four species of the genus Drosera in vitro cultures. In: PM 59(7):A654. 1993." - Joerg Gruenwald, Ph.D., PDR for Herbal Medicines (Get the book.)

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