There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
E. O. WILSONIn some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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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 world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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