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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

Paul R. Ehrlich
Humanity, Extinction, Pushing
Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.268, A&C Black
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.