One of the most depressing aspects of climate change is that it's slowly reducing the world's diversity & complexity ... and most of that is taking place outside our view/attention. We won't notice most of it going or remember it when it's gone.
nytimes.com/2021/10/04/cli…
nytimes.com/2021/10/04/cli…
If I say to my grandchild, 20 years from now, "the world's oceans used to have 500% more coral reefs -- they were everywhere, gorgeous & teeming with biodiversity" ... what will that mean to them? Will they even experience it as loss? Will anyone mourn?
50 years from now, when my great-grandchild is preoccupied with the loss of most of the world's megafauna or species of wild fish, will they even remember coral reefs? How much tragedy can any generation even take in or acknowledge?
Oh, right, I wrote about this. vox.com/energy-and-env…
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