E. O. Wilson Quotes
Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the 'environmentalist' view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
Wilson, Edward O. The Diversity of Life. Harvard University Press, 1992.
Discussing pollution that kept New York City beaches closed:
Preserving the environment in a modern state involves restrictions of various kinds ranging from limits on land use to prohibiting of hunting of endangered species. Each of these limits individual freedom somewhat. This is the main reason that there is a significant anti-environmentalism movement. Most laws and regulations restrict human freedom somewhat, and generally democratic societies limit these to the very necessary. But with environmentalism, more regulation is usually better environmentalism. Therefore such regulation is always a trade off with some human freedom.
Edward Osborne Wilson, usually cited as E. O. Wilson, is an American biologist, naturalist, and writer. Wilson is an influential biologist who on numerous occasions has been given the nicknames "The New Darwin", "Darwin's natural heir" or "The Darwin of the 21st century". His biological specialty is myrmecology, the study of ants, on which he has been called the world's leading expert.
