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If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that inthe instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. —E. O. WILSON Centuries of centuries and only in the present do things happen. —JORGE LUIS BORGES

In Extinction and the Human, Timothy Sweet ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment and the often divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that surround them. He focuses especially on the force of human impact on megafauna—mammoths, whales, and the North American bison. Ultimately, he argues, it is the critical assessment of ideas of human exceptionalism that provides a necessary counterpoint both to apologies for human mastery over nature and deep ecology's attempts to erase the human.

Welcome!You're about to listen to 'Extinction Event', a story about a middle-aged guy that goes back to school and discovers a massive plot involving AI, animals, real and fake news, the polycrisis. And an lost love who is the genius behind the creation of a unique AI platform called GAIA.The story forces us to ask questions about our current way of life:Are we living beyond our means?Will we break the communication barrier between humans and animals?What will happen to us if GAIA already got there and doesn't like what it hears from the two million other species that inhabit Earth?Who's ...