Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs.
"Under the Dome," which was published in 2009 by Simon & Schuster (also owned by CBS), is the story of a small New England town that is suddenly threatened with extinction when an enormous, transparent, but indestructible, dome descends and seals the town off from the rest of civilization.
Sustainable development means rising living standards for everybody in a way that's not going to destroy our ecosystems, cause mass extinctions and add to enormous problems in climate or water scarcity.
Even in purely economic terms, the opportunity costs of extinction are going to prove enormous.
For tens of thousands of years leading up to the extinction, the oozing lavas released enormous quantities of carbon dioxide.
In the extreme, sexual selection may drive species to extinction, as has been argued for the enormous horns of the male Irish elk, which may have made it difficult for mature males to move and feed.
Had more environmentally fragile land been brought into agricultural production to meet the growing food demand, the impact on soil erosion, loss of forests and grasslands, biodiversity and extinction of wildlife species would have been enormous, and quite probably catastrophic.
Under the influence of humans and natural disturbances, the HQHL wetland faced enormous ecological risks, water pollution, area reduction, sharp biodiversity reduction, and fish extinction.
In addition, it is home both to an enormous variety of wildlife, much of which is now threatened or in danger of extinction, as well as to a diverse complement of peoples, cultures and livelihoods.
