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The Real Case for Saving Species: We Don’t Need Them, But They Need Us

Conservationists argue that humans need to save species in order to save ourselves. The truth is we could survive without wild species—but they can’t survive without us, and the moral argument for protecting them and the beauty they bring to the world is overwhelming.

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Carl Safina
2019
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The Secret Call of the Wild: How Animals Teach Each Other to Survive

Cultural knowledge, passed from animal to animal, is key to how species adapt to change in the world around them

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Carl Safina
2020
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‘We Know What the Solutions Look Like. All We Have to Do Is Grasp Them’

Ellen MacArthur, Mya-Rose ‘Birdgirl’ Craig, Chris Packham, Ridhima Pandey and other environmental voices on their hopes and fears for biodiversity in the next 10 years

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Phoebe Weston, Patrick Greenfield
2019
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Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed

Herman Melville’s haunting inquiry—“whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc”—returns to me again while every whale in every ocean returns to share our air in seas we’re warming and thickening with plastic.

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Carl Safina
2020
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The Days of ‘Let’s See What Happens’ Are Over

More extreme weather is happening more often, and we are its cause.

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Carl Safina
2021
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We Don’t Need More Life-Crushing Steel and Concrete

The long-term needs of ecosystems should come before our knee-jerk expectations about infrastructure.

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Carl Safina
2021
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This Brutal Creature Is Wiping Out Everything Besides Itself

From the standpoint of almost every other living thing, humans, with a strategy of economic growth at all costs, have become a kind of hybrid deadly fungus, predatory lender and concentration camp management agency.

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Carl Safina
2019
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Psychic Numbing: Keeping Hope Alive in a World of Extinctions

The litany of lost species can be overwhelming, leading to what has been called “psychic numbing.” But as the recovery of species from bald eagles to humpback whales shows, our actions do matter in saving species and the aliveness and beauty they bring to the world.

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Carl Safina
2020
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Protecting Earth: If ‘Nature Needs Half,’ What Do People Need?

The campaign to preserve half the Earth’s surface is being criticized for failing to take account of global inequality and human needs. But such protection is essential not just for nature, but also for creating a world that can improve the lives of the poor and disadvantaged.

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Carl Safina
2021
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In Defense of Biodiversity: Why Protecting Species from Extinction Matters

A number of biologists have recently made the argument that extinction is part of evolution and that saving species need not be a conservation priority. But this revisionist thinking shows a lack of understanding of evolution and an ignorance of the natural world.

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Carl Safina
2018
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