![]() Many of the species, which go extinct, will never be known to mankind because the study of biodiversity long has been the “stepchild” in biological sciences. ![]() Indeed, we have hardly begun to understand the significance of the diversity of life on our earth. This folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. The one process ongoing in the 1980s that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. ![]() As terrible as these catastrophes would be for us, they can be repaired within a few generations. ![]() The worst that can happen-will happen-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, limited nuclear war, or conquest by a totalitarian government. In January 1980, at the commencement of a new decade, the journal Harvard Magazine asked several Harvard professors what they consider to be the major problems for humanity in the future. ![]()
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