Flight for life : An egret in Japan lifts off. As many as 12 per cent of the world's birds are now threatened with extinction, mainly from loss of habitat. We have, for example, already lost the Atilan and Colombian Grebes, the Wake Island Rail and the Canary Islands Oystercatcher. photo : R Kawakami/UNEP/Still Pictures
"Senior government advisors on both sides of the Atlantic have described climate change as the single biggest threat we face in the 21st century, with greater destructive capacity than terrorist attack or war. It is time for governments to consider our impact on the world as a security issue and invest at least the same amount of political capital and financial resources on solutions as they currently do on military capacity. The driving force behind real change is the commitment of a vocal and demanding mass movement which, over the last 30 years, has increasingly called for radical change to the way we interact with the earth. We might not have the luxury of another 30 years. Unless we, the human race, heed the call to arms now, we risk going down in history as the species that spent all our time monitoring our own extinction and the destruction of the worlds fragile ecosystems rather than preventing it."
Dr Caroline Lucas, Green Party Member of the European Parliament, in a foreword to the book.
