If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling radical decline, and that is not a position that conservation biologists want to be in.
Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing. - Elizabeth Kolbert
Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.
- Elizabeth Kolbert
When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact. So we've done a lot of things wi… - Elizabeth Kolbert
When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact. So we've done a lot of things wi…
As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercu… - Elizabeth Kolbert
As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercu…
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did. - Elizabeth Kolbert
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.
Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the lig… - Elizabeth Kolbert
Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the lig…
No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet. - Elizabeth Kolbert
No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.
If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is goi… - Elizabeth Kolbert
If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is goi…
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that … - Elizabeth Kolbert
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that …
[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less. - Elizabeth Kolbert
[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.
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