Science Always Uses Metaphor.

I Think That We Reject The Evidence That Our World Is Changing Because We Are Still, As That Wonderfully Wise Biologist E. O. Wilson Reminded Us, Tribal Carnivores. We Are Programmed By Our Inheritance To See Other Living Things As Mainly Something To Eat, And We Care More About Our National Tribe Than Anything Else. We Will Even Give Our Lives For It And Are Quite Ready To Kill Other Humans In The Cruellest Of Ways For The Good Of Our Tribe. We Still Find Alien The Concept That We And The Rest Of Life, From Bacteria To Whales, Are Parts Of The Much Larger And Diverse Entity, The Living Earth.

I Have Heard That The Saudi Arabians Are Paying Greenpeace To Campaign Against Nuclear Power. It Wouldn't Surprise Me At All.

By The End Of This Century, Climate Change Will Reduce The Human Population To A Few Breeding Pairs Surviving Near The Arctic.

We Are The Intelligent Elite Among Animal Life On Earth And Whatever Our Mistakes, [earth] Needs Us. This May Seem An Odd Statement After All That I Have Said About The Way 20th Century Humans Became Almost A Planetary Disease Organism. But It Has Taken [earth] 2.5 Billion Years To Evolve An Animal That Can Think And Communicate Its Thoughts. If We Become Extinct She Has Little Chance Of Evolving Another.

An Inefficient Virus Kills Its Host. A Clever Virus Stays With It.