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When family memories reveal environmental loss

My grandfather used to tell stories about catching fireflies as a kid but my son has never seen one and I'm starting to understand we're living through something irreversible.

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The slow violence of extinction becomes visible only in the accumulation of absences across generations.

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“Where Are You with The sixth extinction — examined?”

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