Rolston short entry, untitled (June 7), p. 179 in Todd E. MacLean, ed., Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet (Toronto: Rocky Mountain Books, 2014).
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We live at a change of epochs, a hinge point of history. We have entered the first century in the 45 million centuries of life on Earth in which one species can jeopardize the planet's future. The ultimate unite of moral concern is the ultimate survival unit: this wonderland biosphere. We do not want a denatured life on a denatured planet.