Climate Change: We Have Never Faced A

The Greatest Problem We Face Is The Growing Number Of People Living In Poverty. The Related Sense Of Hopelessness Has To Be Impacting On Every Part Of Environmental Management.

It Has Taken Biologists Some 230 Years To Identify And Describe Three Quarters Of A Million Insects; If There Are Indeed At Least Thirty Million, As Erwin (terry Erwin, The Smithsonian Institute) Estimates, Then, Working As They Have In The Past, Insect Taxonomists Have Ten Thousand Years Of Employment Ahead Of Them. Ghilean Prance, Director Of The Botanical Gardens In Kew, Estimates That A Complete List Of Plants In The Americas Would Occupy Taxonomists For Four Centuries, Again Working At Historical Rates.

Paleoanthropology Is Not A Science That Ends With The Discovery Of A Bone. One Has To Have The Original To Work With. It Is A Life-long Task.

Ritual Disposal Of The Dead Speaks Clearly Of An Awareness Of Death, And Thus An Awareness Of Self.

To Have Arrived On This Earth As A Product Of A Biological Accident, Only To Depart Through Human Arrogance, Would Be The Ultimate Irony.