James Annan wrote:
> My prediction, for what it's worth, is that we will be told we have "10
> years to act" indefinitely, certainly well beyond a decade from now,
> irrespective of any actions that are taken.
That's the definition of an increasing curve, eh? It always looks flat
behind you and steeper ahead.
The possibility changes, or rather what's possible is defined by where
we are at the moment.
Nobody's saying we have ten years to reverse thedecline of the
passenger pigeon and concomitant increase in its primary food, the
mosquito -- we live with mosquitos and forget we eradicated their
primary predator. Now it's mosquitos darkening the skies, it used to
be passenger pigeons flying overhead for days in such large groups.
Now we take mosquitos for granted; then our grandparents took passenger
pigeons for granted.
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