We Must Save The Living Environment


	We Must Save The Living Environment

mrobert

8-23-2009 2:42 AM

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ecosystems, environment, climate change, e.o. wilson

mrobert says:

E. O. Wilson says we must do more than save the plants and animals. 99% of earth's organisms are tiny but extremely important in the functioning of all the larger organisms. If we don't save the minute, we lose it all.

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