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I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one.
Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Old River Control Auxiliary Structure
Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
Naomi Klein • Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
Terry Tempest Williams • The Pall Of Our Unrest
One way to make sense of the biodiversity crisis would simply be to accept it. The history of life has, after all, been punctuated by extinction events, both big and very, very big. The impact that brought an end to the Cretaceous wiped out something like seventy-five percent of all species on earth. No one wept for them, and, eventually, new speci
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Marx: “Men make their own biosphere, but they do not make it just as they please.”
Elizabeth Kolbert • Under a White Sky
Atmospheric warming, ocean warming, ocean acidification, sea-level rise, deglaciation, desertification, eutrophication—these are just some of the by-products of our species’s success. Such is the pace of what is blandly labeled “global change” that there are only a handful of comparable examples in earth’s history, the most recent being the asteroi
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