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.
E. O. WILSONWe have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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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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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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