It’s our chance to practice altruism … we have to wear suits of armor like World War II soldiers and just keep going. We have to get used to the changes in the landscape, to step over the dead bodies, so to speak, and discipline our behavior instead of getting stuck in tribal and religious restrictions. We have to work altruistically and cooperatively, and make a new world.
—Biologist EO Wilson, speaking to journalist Gretel Ehrlich