Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No … - Lynn Margulis

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Lynn Margulis

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are chosen, the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.

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To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

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People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.

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Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

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The notion of saving the planet has nothing to do with intellectual honesty or science. The fact is that the planet was here long before us and will be here long after us. The planet is running fine. What people are talking about is saving themselves and saving their middle-class lifestyles and saving their cash flow.

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We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

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