The Sixth Age of Destruction: A New "Birds & Bees" Talk

E. O. Wilson has served us a new and disturbing perspective on "the birds & the bees" in his book The Creation. And it ain't pretty! Are we really ready to talk about this subject?

Evidently, we top dog mammals are doing more harm than good to the earth. Could this be true? We may be a bigger "meteorite" of destruction to earth than the one that ended the Age of Reptiles. Talk about a God Complex. We certainly have a thing for acting like Shiva.

Wilson says we're in the midst of the Sixth Age of Destruction--there being five big earth catastrophes before us. And who are the destroyers now? You guessed it. We are. We contribute as a relatively small representation of all animals to habitat loss, migration of invasive species, pollution, overpopulation, and overharvesting. By the way, we have nukes that could bring northern hemisphere holocaust in a matter of minutes.

Seems discouraging, to say the least. Are you really ready to talk about this stuff?