Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet

by Hannah Ritchie

This lack of comfort with subjectivity betrays an issue that cuts to the heart of the conservation challenge and the role of science. Sometimes we fight hardest to protect things because they move us, not because of objective valuation of their functional importance… Bacteria keep us alive more than bears do, but the bears help us to have lives worth living.