E.O. Wilson

The introduction to part II was scary to read. That biologist E.O Wilson said fifty percent of the world’s species will come to be extinct by the end of this century. I wikipediad this guy, being that’s a large prediction. It doesn’t really mention anything about his thoughts on biodiversity, but it did have something interesting: his theory of epic evolution.

Wilson explained the need for the Epic of Evolution - "Human beings must have an epic, a sublime account of how the world was created and how humanity became part of it (…) Religious epics satisfy another primal need. They confirm we are part of something greater than ourselves (…) The way to achieve our epic that unites human spirituality, instead of cleave it, it is to compose it from the best empirical knowledge that science and history can provide".[9]. The worth of the Epic he explained as -“The true evolutionary epic retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic”

So, combining his prediction and his theory, the epic of evolution will be very dark this century as thousands of species become extinct.