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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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