“A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.”
"News from the Sun" in Myths of the Near Future (1982)
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Embracing Death, p. 146
The Ahuman Manifesto: Activism for the End of the Anthropocene (2020)

As quoted in "Livingstone says Bush is 'greatest threat to life on planet'" by Nigel Morris, in The Independent (18 November 2003), p. 5.
As quoted in a review of Fahrenhype 9/11, FahrenHYPE 9/11: Morris vs. Moore, Chicago Sun Times, 28 October 2004, Jim, Emerson http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20040802/EDITOR/41028002, - some indications exist that this was from a speech in Power Center, Michigan, promoting Dude (2003)
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Speech at the Katowice Climate Change Conference, "David Attenborough: collapse of civilisation is on the horizon" https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/dec/03/david-attenborough-collapse-civilisation-on-horizon-un-climate-summit, The Guardian, 3 December 2018.
Climate Change Conference 2018
There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Even Drought bears fruit. Even death is a seed.
Chapter 5, A Special Providence (p. 82)
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (1994)

Reflections on Various Subjects (1665–1678), III. On Taste

Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990), p. 35
2010s, Confederation Again (July 2018)