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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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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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Avoiding a ‘Ghastly Future’: Hard Truths on the State of the Planet

A group of the world’s top ecologists have issued a stark warning about the snowballing crisis caused by climate change, population growth, and unchecked development. Their assessment is grim, but big-picture societal changes on a global scale can still avert a disastrous future.

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Carl Safina
2021
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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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A Dead Whale Containing 90 Pounds of Plastic Is a Message in a Bottle

All these great ocean creatures are like bottles washing ashore, each bearing a message for all of us: We are choking on your trash.

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Carl Safina
2019
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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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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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‘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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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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