Table of Contents
Introduction 7
1 Numerous Signs Point to Mass Extinctions Tracy V. Wilson 10
2 Species Extinction Rates Are Overestimated Stuart Wolpert 17
3 Study: 6th Mass Extinction Looms But Preventable, Study Says Stephanie Pappas 22
4 Mass Plant Extinctions Show the Threats from Human Exploitation Juliette Jowit 27
5 Human Consumption of Plants and Animals Can Lead to Conservation Kim Severson 32
6 Humans Have Created Conditions That Cause Amphibian Extinctions Nzfrog 38
7 A Fungal Disease Is One of the Main Threats Causing Amphibian Extinctions Amphibian Ark 46
8 Global Warming May Force Polar Bears into Extinction Michael McCarthy 57
9 Polar Bears: Today's Canaries in the Coal Mine? Bjorn Lomborg 60
10 Give a Bee a Home Hazel Sillver 70
11 Bee Extinctions, and a Resulting Catastrophe, May Be Inevitable Bill Schutt 75
12 Human Beings Will Be Extinct Within One Hundred Years The Daily Star 81
13 It Is Extremely Unlikely Human Beings Will Become Extinct Tobin Lopes, et al 84
Organizations to Contact 97
Bibliography 102
Index 107
