As E.O. Wilson accepts his 2007 TED Prize, he makes a plea on behalf of all creatures that we learn more about our biosphere — and build a networked encyclopedia of all the world’s knowledge about life. Watch video on TED.com
With the majority of the world’s spicies not yet discovered, E.O. Wilson states we are flying blind into the environmental future. Ofcourse it’s clear to anyone we need nature to survive, but from an economical perspective we only need the resources, not untouched nature. Wilson makes clear that this is a big mistake and the way we are going now means the extermination of millions of species not even yet discovered, species that might be the very species enabling humans to live on planet earth.
As an example, Wilson talks about ‘Prochlorococci’, a maritime bacteria that is responsible for the largest part of the photosynthesis in the sea (which is providing 60% of the earths oxygen). This bacteria was only discovered in 1988. We only know about 6.000 species of bacterias yet while we estimate that in a ton of soil there are about 4 million species. Wilson states we are destroying nature with a complexity and diversity of live in ways we have not began even to imagine.
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