Praying for the moths and beetles
". . . insects as a group are in terrible trouble and the remorselessly expanding human enterprise has become too much, even for them."
And instantly I'm beyond the realm of anything I know, as I consider the gradual disappearance not of whales but of . . . beetles, moths and hoverflies, thanks to the human enterprise we call civilization, as Michael McCarthy put it in The Guardian.
It's too easy to isolate these deeply troubling matters, to focus on one, take aim and fire off blame, but in my uncertainty and aching sense of responsibility, as a full participant in the
