title: Why the club of earth?
abstract: Recently, a small group of ecologists and evolutionary biologists anointed themselves The Club of Earth and made a public pronouncement on the importance of preserving biological diversity. For me, the most frequent result of being a member has been a series of queries about why the group had been formed.
authors.affiliation: Paul Ehrlich is at the Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
authors.forename: P R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Ehrlich