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In this sense, the crisis Cuvier discerned just beyond the edge of recorded history was us.
“Though the world does not change with a change of paradigm, the scientist afterward works in a different world” is how Kuhn put
“Time is the essential ingredient, but in the modern world there is no time.”
What Boiga irregularis has done in Guam, he observes, “is precisely what Homo sapiens has done all over the planet: succeeded extravagantly at the expense of other species.”
Alroy has described the megafauna extinction as a “geologically instantaneous ecological catastrophe too gradual to be perceived by the people who unleashed it.”
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.
When the world changes faster than species can adapt, many fall out. This is the case whether the agent drops from the sky in a fiery streak or drives to work in a Honda.
