Bravo, Judy Calman - you are spot on. We humans need to stop thinking that somehow we are doing the planet Earth a huge favour, by our campaigns and advocacy, to save the world's natural environment.
In making our biosphere uninhabitable, t is humankind that is actually at risk of becoming extinct, not the earth. Full stop. We all need to understand that perfectly.
On the scale of geological time - barring it being smashed into smithereens by an object from outer space - in a few million years, our biosphere would have recovered from our barbaric-environmental-vandalism, and will be thriving again, sans homo sapiens. Simple. Not rocket science.
Even, I, an old fool from a backwater, in my native Ghana, with very little formal education, can understand that. Before our encounter with the first Europeans (the Portuguese), in the 15th century, my ancestors lived in harmony with Mother Nature.
Sir David has devoted his entire life, to making the whole world understand, why living in harmony with nature, is an existential-need. In so doing, we are only ensuring that we do not end up making our biosphere uninhabitable for humanity.
Let us hope that the Noble Committee, recognises Sir David's distinguished service, to humankind, in that regard, and finally honours him with a Noble Peace Prize. Happy holidays - and may 2021 turn out to be much better year than the annus horribilis that 2020 was!
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