So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.
The tragedy is that there is so much more incentive - money - to destroy the ecology than there is to preserve it.
Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
We have to prove to the disinherited majority of the world that ecology and conservation will not work against their interest but will bring an improvement in their lives.
Sooner or later, we will have to recognise that the Earth has rights, too, to live without pollution. What mankind must know is that human beings cannot live without Mother Earth, but the planet can live without humans.
It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it.
Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.
Ecosystems are holy. The word "environmental" is a deadly compromise itself. It's a policy word that lives only in the head, and barely there.