Bill Moyers interview E.O. Wilson on the obliteration of nature.

He says that given our rate of environmental destruction we are approaching a "bottleneck" that we must work very hard just to get through and survive as a species. Population expected to hit 9 billion, increased per capita consumption, pollution, over fishing, decimated ecosystems, etc, etc. Note that this is on top of the very real threats from global warming.

The U.N. recently reported that in just 30 years, one quarter of all mammals will be extinct. By the ned of the century, it's estimated that we'll lose half of ALL species of animals.

Quote:
"If we could change our world-view, it would be somewhat radical, but it would mean seeing ourselves as a biological species in a biological world. That we are a species exquisitely well adapted to this planet and that we originated here and that our peculiarities including the ones that threaten us all the time, that threaten your own-- threaten our own existence are-- can be understood by the history of the way we originated in that living world. And if we could just place ourselves realistically in that context and stop thinking of ourselves as semi angels, you know, on the way that this is just a weigh station on a way on up to-- an idealized existence-- change that. Then, I think we would get pretty serious about peace and long term security and saving the rest of life. And-- and-- keeping our options open for the future."

Visit http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/07062007/profile.html for video and transcript.