09-23-2019, 04:26 AM
Mike Johnson wrote:
Back in the thirties and forties, my dad would see schools of dophin as far as the eye could see just off the coast of Los Angeles. I never saw anything like that growing up. But when I was a kid, I did experience that in the Sea of Cortez.
I could take my son down to Loreto for a fishing trip, but schools of dolphin like that, they’re just not there any more. You just get used to it, it’s the new normal.
Our grandkids won’t really notice the lack of birds or bugs. They’ll see old time videos of flocks of birds on the wings, murmurations of starlings wheeling above fields of grain, and it’ll be like us looking at a grainy old photo of the last Tasmanian tiger.
They'll notice it when entire ecosystems start crashing.