Yes human extinction - human beings are being extinguished in Chicago especially black humans.
The lights of liberty are being extinguished in parts of Europe.
Even at the most conservative estimate, other species are being extinguished at 100 to 1,000 times the background rate observable in the fossil record.
"Quality French agriculture is dying," he wrote, and "our peasants are disappearing, the richness of our soils and the purity of our landscapes are being extinguished".
Some purists bemoan the lost art of the midrange jump shot, a sign that fundamentals are being extinguished beneath a mix tape of long shots and slam dunks.
They are being extinguished at a rate between 100 and 1,000 times faster than before the arrival of our own species.
Many species of plants and animals were being extinguished before they could be described, if only because 80% of biologists live in the industrialised countries, which are home to only about 20% of the world's species.
However, even at a time when unemployment is at its lowest and inflation minimal, aspirations of having a home, a fulfilling job and a higher income than the generation before are being extinguished.
But others, from the temperamentally pessimistic von Moltke to Sir Edward Grey, the British foreign secretary ("The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime"), had few illusions about what was to come.Both books end as those lights are being extinguished.
Tales of the destruction of the habitats by humans, and of benign and necessary insects, birds, bats and other creatures, by crop-spraying and road-building...Of the need to find other (often better) pollinators, in a world where they are being extinguished swiftly and silently.
GOAL! Tottenham 3-1 ShamRoversovers (Giovani Dos Santos, 66 minutes) The dream is being extinguished in rapid fashion here for Rovers now, as Jermain Defoe sets off on a barnstorming run before nudging the ball out to Giovani Dos Santos as his team-mate angles in from the right touchline.
