Biodiversity Quote by Norman Myers

Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's…

— David Suzuki

We find ourselves heading fully into an era of mass extinction.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

Humankind has suddenly entered into a brand new relationship with our planet. Unless we quickly and profoundly change the course of our civilization, we…

— Al Gore

“Humans are only one species of millions. To kill millions of species for the benefit of one is insane, just as killing millions of…

— Aric McBay

'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced to mate…

— Adela Popescu

The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction,…

— Eban Goodstein

If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can…

— Richard Heinberg

“I mention all this to make the point that if you were designing an organism to look after life in our lonely cosmos, to…

— Bill Bryson

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

— Moby

We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the restoration of…

— E. O. Wilson

Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power,…

— David Christian

“In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react to the human parasite, the…

— Richard Preston