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self-extinction

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  • In a dreadful kind of irony Szilard came up with the notion of the doomsday machine in 1950 as a way of trying to shock the world into the real possibility of self-extinction.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • In a dreadful kind of irony Szilard came up with the notion of the doomsday machine in 1950 as a way of trying to shock the world into the real possibility of self-extinction.

    How the End Begins Ron Rosenbaum 2011

  • Perhaps this sentiment isn't politically correct at a time when, well, we've profited from the planet to the brink of self-extinction.

    R.O.G. 2010

  • Perhaps this sentiment isn't politically correct at a time when, well, we've profited from the planet to the brink of self-extinction.

    Marc Stoiber: R.O.G. 2010

  • And she, the phoenix nesting on her bed of self-extinction, is sucked away deliciously.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • And she, the phoenix nesting on her bed of self-extinction, is sucked away deliciously.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • Perhaps this sentiment isn't politically correct at a time when, well, we've profited from the planet to the brink of self-extinction.

    Marc Stoiber: R.O.G. Marc Stoiber 2010

  • And she, the phoenix nesting on her bed of self-extinction, is sucked away deliciously.

    The Best American Poetry 2010 Amy Gerstler 2010

  • Continuing to do that will require eternal vigilance, endless grassroots action and the steadfast belief that in the long run, our species has the will and foresight to somehow avoid radioactive self-extinction.

    Harvey Wasserman: The GOP's 100-Reactor/Trillion-Dollar Energy Plan Goes Radioactive 2009

  • For that reason, I am certain that humankind's behavior over the last five hundred years constitutes of a form of self-extinction.

    Sound Politics: Global Warming Update 2007

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