think or thwim

Last week Bill Moyers interviewed E.O. Wilson, and that should not be missed.

If we do not abate the various changes we’re causing: climate, habitat destruction, the continuing pollution of major river systems and so on, we will, by the end of the century, lose or have right at the brink of extinction about half the species of plants and animals in the world, certainly on the land…

I’m putting my hope primarily in human common sense. You know, I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, “When all else fails, men turn to reason.” And I think we are at the stage now. We are ready to turn to reason.

The second part of the show about the Earth Conservation Corps is worth your time, too. Every Bill Moyers Journal is available online at PBS.org/moyers/journal.