My CommonPlace

Edward O. Wilson, in his Foreword to a June 2008 collection of scientific essays entitled Sustaining Life, says: “We do not float above the biosphere in some higher spiritual or technoscientific plane. Life swarms around us, and even in us…. For many reasons, not least our own well-being, we need to take better care of the rest of life. Biodiversity … will pay off in every sphere of human life, from medical to economic, from our collective security to our spiritual fulfillment.”