As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercussions, then the next question is okay, what are we going to do about it? Elizabeth Kolbert More Quotes by Elizabeth Kolbert More Quotes From Elizabeth Kolbert Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people. Elizabeth Kolbert planets disease people You've got to do everything, everything's got to be pointing in the same direction and you've got to really turn this whole economic engine from one that's based on fossil fuels to one that isn't. Elizabeth Kolbert fossils economic fuel Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error. Elizabeth Kolbert errors light running In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled. Elizabeth Kolbert two children thinking
