November 28, 2008
EarthSky
Paul Ehrlich on why humans rule
Interview by Jorge Salazar
“We tried to put between the covers of one book, how we evolved, how we got to be a brilliant, dominant animal, changing the land surface of the planet, changing the atmosphere, changing the oceans. And in the process, starting to saw off the limb that we’re sitting on.” – Paul Ehrlich
Ehrlich wrote the 1960s classic The Population Bomb – and more recently, a book called The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment. It’s about how humans came to dominate our planet. Ehrlich said that as human culture itself evolved, so did our power to shape and reshape the planet...
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EarthSky
Paul Ehrlich on why humans rule
Interview by Jorge Salazar
“We tried to put between the covers of one book, how we evolved, how we got to be a brilliant, dominant animal, changing the land surface of the planet, changing the atmosphere, changing the oceans. And in the process, starting to saw off the limb that we’re sitting on.” – Paul Ehrlich
Ehrlich wrote the 1960s classic The Population Bomb – and more recently, a book called The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment. It’s about how humans came to dominate our planet. Ehrlich said that as human culture itself evolved, so did our power to shape and reshape the planet...
listen to the podcast