Orts #909

"The planet’s diameter will remain eight thousand miles, and its surface will still cover two hundred million square miles. But the earth, for humans, has begun to shrink, under our feet and in our minds."

"Until now, human beings have been spreading, from our beginnings in Africa, out across the globe—slowly at first, and then much faster. But a period of contraction is setting in as we lose parts of the habitable earth."
 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/26/how-extreme-weather-is-shrinking-the-planet

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Insect Armageddon and Trophic Cascade
https://nyti.ms/2KHRhj8

a few quotes:
 

"The world never feels fallen, because we grow accustomed to the fall."

“We notice the losses. It’s the diminishment that we don’t see.”

"The number of Sophie the Giraffe toys sold in France in a single year is nine times the number of all the giraffes that still live in Africa."

"[I]f you look at the world’s mammals by weight, 96 percent of that biomass is humans and just 4 percent is wild animals."

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"Climate change is caused by two things: human activity and human inaction"
https://nyti.ms/2ElluEn