Renowned naturalist Edward O. Wilson explains what humanity can do to preserve biodiversity and prevent a mass extinction event in the upcoming decades.

Our time on this planet is insignificant if we consider it from a geological point of view.

And yet, human activity has caused the Earth's biodiversity to drop a thousand times more rapidly than in the epochs that came before us.

Edward O. Wilson was an American biologist, award-winning author and environmental advocate, and one of the world's leading experts in entomology.

Published in 2016, Half-Earth is the last book in Wilson's Anthropocene Epoch series — a trilogy devoted to humanity's impact on the Earth's biosphere.

In Half-Earth, Wilson proposes a systemic solution to the massive biodiversity loss caused by humans' shortsighted and unsustainable use of natural resources.