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The fate of the soil system depends on society's willingness to intervene in the market place, and to forego some of the short-term benefits that accrue from 'mining' the soil so that soil quality and fertility can be maintained over the longer term.

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We are able to breathe, drink, and eat in comfort because millions of organisms and hundreds of processes are operating to maintain a liveable environment, but we tend to take nature's services for granted because we don't pay money for most of them.

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Cooperation for mutual benefit, a survival strategy very common in natural systems, is one that humanity needs to emulate.

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When the study of the household (ecology) and the management of the household (economics) can be merged, and when ethics can be extended to include environmental as well as human values, then we can be optimistic about the future of humankind. Accordingly, bringing together these three 'E's' is the ultimate holism and the great challenge for our future.

Eugene Odum

Eugene Odum

Eugene Odum

Born: September 17, 1913

Died: August 10, 2002 (aged 88)

Bio: Eugene Pleasants Odum was an American biologist at the University of Georgia known for his pioneering work on ecosystem ecology. He and Howard T. Odum wrote the popular ecology textbook Fundamentals of Ecology, published in 1953.

Known for:

Fundamentals of ecology (1953)
Ecological vignettes (1998)
Basic Ecology (1983)
Ecology (1963)

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