The Health of Ecosystems
depends upon a variety of species. The more diverse the ecosystem, the more resilient.
“The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others.” Theodore Roosevelt
Extinctions
As seen from this 2008 graph from J.M. Scott, as human population expands, biodiversity is lost.
“We cannot predict the behavior of the whole, complex, connected system. We cannot know what will go wrong or right. However we can be absolutely certain that by reducing or destroying biodiversity, our world will be less able to adapt.”
“To restore stability to our planet, therefore, we must restore its biodiversity, the very thing we have removed. It is the only way out of this crisis that we ourselves have created. We must rewild the world.”