One planet, one experiment.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

Yes, the natural sciences are telling us a great deal about human origins, the origins of our species the origins of our minds; we're on our way to explaining a large part of it. I'll accept an answer provided only by such means as obtaining and exploring, analyzing and arguing over the evidence - not because of a scribe's myopic view of the subject written 500 years before the birth of Christ!

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere.

The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in perpetuity.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.