actually, not an unthinkable thought…

 

 

“Owing in large measure to humankind’s

   long, steadily accelerating career of habitat shattering,

the rate of extinction is currently

   about a thousand times what is normal.

That’s how fast the planet’s biotic community

   is losing member species these days…

I can’t get that extinction crisis out of my mind.

Extinction is not abstract in the least.

It’s the thousands of instances of the desolation

   of being the last of one’s kind.”

 

Stephanie Mills, excerpt from “The One Who Steals the Fat,” The Sun magazine, January 2001

 

We’re not accustomed to thinking in truly absolute terms—think about it, extinction is the end.

Think again about your grandchildren.

Think again.

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