For a period of time this book was used in the management circles to promote the idea of an ecosystems approach to management.
I don’t know what happened to that agenda but I do know that very few who read Consilience went on to read other E.O Wilson books, which is a pity really because maybe just maybe some of the trashy management decisions we are seeing now may have been less trashy
(I am using management as a loose word to broadly include corporate mal-interests towards nature and conservation)