Think how nature makes things compared to how we humans make things." We talked about how animals don't just preserve the next generation; they typically preserve the environment for the ten-thousandth generation. While human industrial processes can produce Kevlar, it takes a temperature of thousands of degrees to do it, and the fiber is pulled through sulfuric acid. In contrast, a spider makes its silk - which per gram is several times stronger than steel - at room temperature in water.

William Powers

Tag: animals environment humans steel preservation silk spider kevlar



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The difference between actually very serious and actually very funny is actually very thin.

William Powers


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That which we allow to exist, to flourish freely according to its own rhythms, is superior to anything our little hands create.

William Powers

Tag: conservation bolivia eco-tourism



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This is how social change ultimately happens: enlightened values do not change behavior; the contours of self-interest are altered and new values rush into the vacuum.

William Powers

Tag: values conservation bolivia



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