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infiniment plus grande que nécessaire. À la fin du XIXe siècle, le brillant biologiste Thomas Huxley (1825-1895), fervent défenseur de Darwin et grand-père d’Aldous Huxley, déclara même devant le Parlement britannique qu’il serait impossible à l’humanité d’épuiser les ressources des océans. Leur pouvoir de régénération était simplement trop puissan
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In The Wizard and the Prophet, Lynn Margulis is indeed quoted as comparing humans to bacteria in a petri dish, warning that humanity could overrun the planet and exhaust its resources, leading to collapse. Charles C. Mann opens the book with a quote from Margulis, whom he admires as “one of the most important biologists in the last half century,” a
... See moreTo continue to knowingly alter those conditions in a manner that threatens humanity and other life forms, simply so a few very large corporations can continue to make record profits, is not just unacceptable, or unethical—it would be the most immoral act in the history of human civilization: not just a crime against humanity, but a crime against ou
... See moreMichael E. Mann • The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet
Section 27, an obscure amendment to the state constitution, Pennsylvania had guaranteed its citizens the right to clean air and pure water and to the commonly held assets of public natural resources. Pennsylvania was one of only three states in the nation to enshrine such environmental rights in its Bill of Rights.
Eliza Griswold • Amity and Prosperity: One Family and the Fracturing of America
Rachel Carson eloquently articulates in Silent Spring, “The whole problem of pesticide poisoning is enormously complicated by the fact that a human being, unlike a laboratory animal living under rigidly controlled conditions, is never exposed to one chemical alone.”