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" The one process ongoing in the 1980s that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. "
Environmentalism for a New Millennium: The Challenge of Coevolution - Page 67
by Leslie Paul Thiele - 1999 - 336 pages
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Biological Diversity/prospects and Problems: Hearings Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment - 1988 - 340 pages
...would be for us, they can be repaired within a few generations. The one process ongoing in the 1980s that will take millions of years to correct is the...This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us." There exists widespread agreement among biologists that the rate of species extinction...
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Biological Diversity/prospects and Problems: Hearings Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment - 1988 - 340 pages
...would be for us, they can be repaired within a few generations. The one process ongoing in the 1980s that will take millions of years to correct is the...This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us." There exists widespread agreement among biologists that the rate of species extinction...
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United States Congressional Serial Set, Issue 13668

1988 - 472 pages
...loss of species poses a grave risk to our future. Harvard biologist Edward O. Wilson has said that the "loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats ... is the folly our descendents are least likely to forgive us." The Endangered Species Act, up for...
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Biological Diversity/prospects and Problems: Hearings Before the ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment - 1988 - 324 pages
...would be for US, they can be repaired within a few generations. The on• process ongoing in the 1980s that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of ganatic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants...
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The National Biological Diversity Conservation and Environmental ..., Volume 2

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment - 1989 - 434 pages
...would be for us, they can be repaired within a few generations. The one process ongoing in the 1980 's that will take millions of years to correct is the...This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us." Species extinction is rapidly increasing, mainly because we are destroying the last natural...
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The National Biological Diversity Conservation and Environmental ..., Volume 2

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment - 1989 - 428 pages
...would be for us, they can be repaired within a few generations. The one process ongoing in the 1980 's that will take millions of years to correct is the...This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us." Species extinction is rapidly increasing, mainly because we are destroying the last natural...
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American Heritage Trust Act of 1988: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on ...

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Public Lands - 1989 - 900 pages
...not energy depletion, economic collapse, or conquest by a totalitarian government. The one process that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of species diversity by the destruction of natural habitat. This is the folly our descendants are least...
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California Desert Protection Act of 1989: Hearing Before the ..., Volume 4

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Public Lands, National Parks, and Forests - 1990 - 690 pages
...written, "the one process ongoing in the 1980s that win take millions of years to correct is the toss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction...This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us." In two hundred years we have evolved from a society challenged to survive in the face...
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The Expendable Future: U.S. Politics and the Protection of Biological Diversity

Richard J. Tobin - 1990 - 340 pages
...be, Wilson reasons that they can "be repaired within a few generations. The one process ongoing . . . that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by destruction of natural habitats." 41 David Ehrenfeld succinctly summarizes the problem and the need...
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National Environmental Education Act: Hearing Before the Committee on ...

United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works - 1990 - 236 pages
..."Blophilia" that, barring nuclear war, the worst thing that will probably happen on Earth is the catastrophic loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. In his view, this process — already well underway — is "the folly our descendants are least likely...
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