G. Evelyn Hutchinson

"Many people, however, are concluding on the basis of mounting and reasonably objective evidence that the length of life of the biosphere as an inhabitable region for organisms is to be measured in decades rather than in hundreds of millions of years. This is entirely the fault of our own species. It would seem not unlikely that we are approaching a crisis that is comparable to the one that occurred when free oxygen began to accumulate in the atmosphere. —G. Evelyn Hutchinson, Sterling Professor of Zoology at Yale, writing the introductory article to Scientific American, September"