We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
E. O. WILSONThe 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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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I had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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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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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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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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