Stephen Meyer says we should get used to the ‘end of the wild’. He says that the only way we can keep the biodiversity we have requires ‘unprecedented changes in human aspirations and societal organization’ – ‘a global spiritual epiphany of unimaginable proportions’*.
He’s right, of course, but I don’t see why we shouldn’t at least try to salvage something of the world-as-we-know-it. One of the best things you can do for the environment is to breed less and train the children you do have to ‘live small’. Be like Grasshopper and aim to leave no footprint. Get working on that epiphany people and try to pull a few others along with you no matter how stupid you think they are.
*New Scientist – 9 Sept 2006. Stephen Myer is author of The End of the Wild
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