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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.

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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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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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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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