When you decide to have a cup of coffee, you have already made your largest contribution to the energy used to deliver coffee to your cup.
Category: biodiversity
biodiversity
The Future of Biodiversity
All other policy actions that could be taken now won’t matter if we fail to curb climate change.
Never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
When we lose a species, the bell tolls for us.
A Bird in the Bush
When we lose birds, we are witnessing the continued unraveling of nature that will leave behind a less healthy and impoverished world for the future.
The ocean is a noisy place
Noise in the sea is of immediate relevance to life in the sea
Extinction
We need to preserve the heritage of species on all corners of the Earth.
William Schlesinger
biodiversity, conservation, environmental policy, faculty, food, natural habitat, population growth
biodiversity, conservation, environmental policy, faculty, food, natural habitat, population growth
Neo-Malthusianism
We must look beyond the self-centered view that we are the only masters of our own survival.
The Border Wall
The wall has costs—cultural costs for reductions in biodiversity that are the heritage of the desert Southwest.
William Schlesinger
agriculture, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, faculty, natural habitat
agriculture, biodiversity, biogeochemistry, carbon sequestration, faculty, natural habitat
What Makes a Healthy Ecosystem?
[We need] a report card that grades plant production, soil organic matter, biodiversity and nutrient balance against our best measures of what they would be in a world without humans.
Global Impoverishment
What good is a butterfly that does not tweet or titillate?