| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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