In December 2022, Scott Pelley of 60 Minutes reported that nations of the world were uniting “to save nature from mass extinction.” Scientists agreed that time was running out, said Pelley, who spoke to zoologist Paul Ehrlich.
“Humanity is not sustainable,” said Ehrlich, who died last week at age 93. “To maintain our lifestyle (yours and mine, basically) for the entire planet, you’d need five more Earths.”
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