From pages14 of Peter Matthiessen's /The Snow Leopard: /"In the
Himalaya as elsewhere there is a great dying, one infinitely sadder than
the Pleistocene extinctions, for man now has the knowledge and the need
to save these remnants of his past."
From the 9 September 2021 issue of /London Review of Books, /"Diary" by
Ben Jackson: "There was little to do in Nelson except sit inside and
watch the world burn. In Siberia, people were fighting fires that
dwarfed anything in North America. Italy, Greece, Turkey, Algeria,
California, Syria, Lebanon, Tunisia were all on fire. Meanwhile, there
were devastating floods in Germany, Belgium, China, Chad, Niger,
Cameroon and many other places. Madagascar was suffering its worst
drought in forty years, with 400,000 people at risk of starvation.
There is a delay between the emission of greenhouse gases and the
consequent warming of the climate. Past emissions have already
committed us to a certain amount of future warming. We won't get
heatwaves as bad as those of 2021 every year, but they are going to come
more often, and with greater intensity. This year is not the new
normal; if anything, we will never have it so good again."
From this morning's New York Times:
U.S. wildlife officials declared the extinction of 23 species
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11 birds, eight freshwater mussels, two fish, a bat and a plant.
From this morning's "Garrison Keillor and Friends" Keillor posted
photos of MRIs showing the damage done to his brain by a couple of strokes.
Lawrence