The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The first law of ecology is that everything is related to everything else.
One of the functions of an organization, of any organism, is to anticipate the future, so that those relationships can persist over time.
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
Biology has tended to be an observational science, and deriving things from first principles has not been possible in the past, but I hate to predict the future on that.
Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.
Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system.
Ecology and economy are becoming inextricably entwined, and the world is becoming more conscious of this fact.
I think future engineered species could be the source of food, hopefully a source of energy, environmental remediation and perhaps replacing the petrochemical industry.
This implies that the laws governing organic cohesion, the organization leading from the part to the whole, represent a biological uncertainty, indeed an uncertainty of the first order.
Despite widely differing perspectives and agendas, there seems to be a remarkable global consensus that has built up over a fairly short period of time that climate change and ecology is one of the truly defining issues for humanity.
No opposing quotes found.