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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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