Register | Sign In


Understanding through Discussion


EvC Forum active members: 65 (9162 total)
5 online now:
Newest Member: popoi
Post Volume: Total: 915,815 Year: 3,072/9,624 Month: 917/1,588 Week: 100/223 Day: 11/17 Hour: 0/0


Thread  Details

Email This Thread
Newer Topic | Older Topic
  
Author Topic:   E.O. Wilson Wants Us to Leave Half of the Earth Alone
ringo
Member (Idle past 412 days)
Posts: 20940
From: frozen wasteland
Joined: 03-23-2005


(1)
Message 4 of 29 (768054)
09-05-2015 12:05 PM
Reply to: Message 1 by Tanypteryx
09-04-2015 4:00 PM


quote:
Half-Earth is his answer to the disaster at hand: a reimagined world in which humans retreat to areas comprising one half of the planet’s landmass. The rest is to be left to the 10 million species inhabiting Earth in a kind of giant national park. In human-free zones, Wilson believes, many endangered species would recover and their extinction would, most likely, be averted.
O give me a home where the unicorns roam....

This message is a reply to:
 Message 1 by Tanypteryx, posted 09-04-2015 4:00 PM Tanypteryx has replied

Replies to this message:
 Message 5 by Tanypteryx, posted 09-05-2015 1:56 PM ringo has seen this message but not replied

  
ringo
Member (Idle past 412 days)
Posts: 20940
From: frozen wasteland
Joined: 03-23-2005


(1)
Message 18 of 29 (768137)
09-08-2015 11:42 AM
Reply to: Message 8 by Omnivorous
09-06-2015 10:16 AM


Re: Altruism or just Truism
quote:
pity this busy monster, manunkind,
not.
e.e. cummings

This message is a reply to:
 Message 8 by Omnivorous, posted 09-06-2015 10:16 AM Omnivorous has seen this message but not replied

  
ringo
Member (Idle past 412 days)
Posts: 20940
From: frozen wasteland
Joined: 03-23-2005


Message 29 of 29 (830117)
03-21-2018 4:01 PM
Reply to: Message 28 by caffeine
03-20-2018 2:38 PM


Re: Last Male Northern White Rhino Dies
caffeine writes:
If it makes you feel any better, nobody treated the northern population as a distinct species prior to a few years ago, while the southern population is a conservation success story. From being presumed extinct in the late nineteenth century there are now more 20,000 of them - the most populous of living rhino species.
We used to hear that a certain species was "extinct in Canada". No word on whether or not it was extinct three feet away in the US.

An honest discussion is more of a peer review than a pep rally. My toughest critics here are the people who agree with me. -- ringo

This message is a reply to:
 Message 28 by caffeine, posted 03-20-2018 2:38 PM caffeine has not replied

  
Newer Topic | Older Topic
Jump to:


Copyright 2001-2023 by EvC Forum, All Rights Reserved

™ Version 4.2
Innovative software from Qwixotic © 2024