Wil S. Hylton Quotes

Life on the planet is being homogenized by the expanding human population and the frequent and rapid movement of people and goods, which carry invasive organisms with them. These invasives often flourish in their new ecosystems because, like the woolly adelgid, they have escaped their predators.

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.

The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.

I believe our biggest issue is the same biggest issue that the whole world is facing, and that's habitat destruction.

Almost all these hotspots around the world, most have been destroyed to the point where there is no wildlife and very little of the natural world left.

There is hardly a place on Earth where people do not log, pave, spray, drain, flood, graze, fish, plow, burn, drill, spill or dump. There is no life zone, with the possible exception of the deep ocean, that we are not degrading.

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.

Because we're not in harmony with the environment, we're destroying the environment that supports us.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

Today, the tide has turned, we are destroying them.

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.

We have killed off nature, that world entirely independent of us which was here before we arrived and which encircled and supported our human society

There is today a frightful disappearance of living species, be they plants or animals. And it's clear that the density of human beings has become so great, if I can say so, that they have begun to poison themselves. And the world in which I am finishing my existence is no longer a world that I like.

The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

Ignorance, hatred and greed are killing nature.

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in human history, largely to meet rapidly growing demands for food, fresh water, timber, fiber and fuel. This has resulted in a substantial and largely irreversible loss in the diversity of life on Earth.

White males are the most responsible for the destruction of human life and environment on the planet today.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

We have become frighteningly effective at altering nature.

Mankind has probably done more damage to the Earth in the 20th century than in all of previous human history.

What we're doing to the planet is inexcusable.

On this ancient and miraculous world, where such beautiful natural and living things have evolved, something has gone wrong when life itself is used as a manufacturing process.

As we kill nature, we are killing ourselves, and God incarnate as the world as well.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.