All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

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.