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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Burn Cook Destroy Economic Gain Meal Paint Rainforest Renaissance
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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Cail Cease Come Environment Perhaps Time View
I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Believe Consequence Dogma Evolution Religious Tend
If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Chaos Collapse Environment Insect Vanish
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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Brain Constant Distrore Immediate Input Map Often Sensory World
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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All Ant Biomass Insect Make Third Two
Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Corrupt Ideology Mind Political Science
Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Across Belief Change Come Demonstrate Even Fall Generation Hard Slowly
People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Nonfiction Novel People Red Respect
The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Around Depend Energy Fungal Major Material Olayerm Cycle World
We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Decide Decommissioned Deep Look Must Natural Ourselves Selection Wish
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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Alone Disspaer Humanity Insect Land Life Mist Out Planet Rest Wipe
There is no better high than discovery.
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Better Discovery High One Liner
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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Ant Biomass Cemetery Dominant Inspect Make Myuchm Quater Predators Principal Tell Well Worker
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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Correct Destruction Diversity Genetic Go Habitat Loss Million Natural Now Only Process Species Take Will Year
By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Achievement Enlightenment Faith Justify Measure Reasonable Science Think

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