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Scientist Warns of Species' Extinction

 

October 06, 2006 — By Associated Press

BOZEMAN, Mont. — As many as half the world's species may face extinction by

2100 because of pollution, climate change, human population growth and other

influences, a renowned scientist dubbed " the father of biodiversity " told an

audience here.

 

Edward O. Wilson spoke Wednesday to a Montana State University crowd estimated

at more than 2,000 after he came to Bozeman to accept the George R. Stibitz

Computer and Communications Pioneer Award. The award by the American Computer

Museum of Bozeman and MSU's computer science department was in recognition of

Wilson's promotion of an electronic " Encyclopedia of Life " to store information

about every species on Earth.

 

Wilson, a Harvard University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, has

done pioneering research in biology and developed a field known as sociobiology,

which seeks to link behavior in humans and animals to their evolutionary

heritage.

 

Steps to prevent the broad loss of species can be undertaken and the 21st

century ultimately may become known as " the century of the environment, " Wilson

said.

 

He has been seeking to recruit religious fundamentalists as allies in a push for

environmental protection.

 

His new book, " The Creation, " presents a case for religion and science to work

together for protection of Nature, saying the two are " the most powerful social

forces on Earth, " for achieving change.

 

Wilson described Earth as " a little-known planet. "

 

" We have just begun to explore it, " he said.

 

Source: Associated Press

 

 

As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances,

there's a twilight where everything remains seemingly unchanged, and it is in

such twilight that we must be aware of change in the air, however slight, lest

we become unwitting victims of the darkness.

William O. Douglas