Life, loss and hope
Extinction is in the air. Climate rebels have blocked roads and bridges, and glued themselves to the tarmac in extinction’s name. But whose extinction exactly? The natural world’s or our own?
Extinction is, of course, a natural process. Without it, life on Earth would still be primordial slime. Extinction gets us all in the end; 99% of every life form that ever existed is extinct, just as every species living today will also fail, one day. You might say that, biologically speaking, death is just as important as life. For endings are also beginnings. The death of one species may be an opportunity for
