Quotes About Ecosystem

IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

ninety percent of all species on earth had been eliminated.

by a pair of herpetologists. It was titled "Are We in the Midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction?

if there's been epidemic extinction and ecospace opens up, rats may be best placed to take advantage of that.

Marine ecosystems effectively collapsed

succeeded extravagantly at the expense of other species.

Extinction rates soar, and the texture of life changes.

One of the defining features of the Anthropocene is that the world is changing in ways that compel species to move, and another is that it's changing in ways that create barriers—roads, clear-cuts, cities—that prevent them from doing so.

with the exception of humans, all the great apes today are facing oblivion.

I was struck, and not for the first time, by how much easier it is to ruin an ecosystem than to run one.

Under what's known as a "business as usual" emissions scenario, surface ocean pH will fall to 8.0 by the middle of this century, and it will drop to 7.8 by the century's end. At that point, the oceans will be 150 percent more acidic than they were at the start of the industrial revolution.*

Weeds eat seeds they don't produce

Security is tantamount in the world of digital currencies, and rapid growth puts the security of the entire ecosystem at risk.

We are losing our environment so rapidly.

We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.

The world is using up its natural resources at an alarming rate, and this has caused a permanent shift in their value. We all need to adjust our behavior to this new environment. It would help if we did it quickly.

That's a real problem when people bring exotics into their homes. Sometimes it's by accident, but sometimes it's on purpose.

Climate change is having a dramatic effect on the ground.

Environmental groups are not completely against dams. We approve of appropriate development.

We don't like to think of ourselves as prey—it is a lessening thought—but the truth is that in our arrogance and so-called knowledge we forget that we are not unique. We are part of nature as much as other animals, and some animals—sharks, fever-bearing mosquitoes, wolves and bear, to name but a few—perceive us as a food source, a meat supply, and simply did not get the memo about how humans are superior.

Deer love mushrooms.

When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others as the most superior competitor. But it doesn't happen that way. Nor does it happen that way in the marketplace.

We all know the principle that the polluter pays? Well one day I got to wondering why it is that the polluter seems to get away with it quite so often! Then it occurred to me that if the polluter is going to pay, somebody needs to tell him how much. The proper valuation of natural capital will enable us to say how much.

There's nothing good about ash dieback, but there is one useful thing that could be done: wherever possible, leave the dead trees to stand. There is more life in a dead tree than in a living tree: around 2,000 animal species in the UK rely on dead or dying wood for their survival.