The greatest challenge of our species

Thomas Lovejoy:

The greatest violation by far of planetary boundaries is in biological diversity. This is because, by definition, all environmental problems affect living systems; biological diversity integrates them all. Running down our biological capital is pure folly.

Living things are—to borrow a related phrase—the keystone that holds it all together.

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