"Certainly humans can be destructive and shortsighted; they can also be forward-thinking and altruistic. Time and time again, people have demonstrated that they care about what Rachel Carson called "the problem of sharing our earth with other creatures," and that they're willing to make sacrifices on those creatures' behalf. Alfred Newton described the slaughter that was occurring along the British coast; the result was the Act for the Preservation of Sea Birds..."
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Elizabeth Kolbert The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2015)
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Alfred Newton
(11 June 1829 – 7 June 1907) was an English ornithologist and Professor of Comparative Anatomy at the University of Cambridge.
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