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Utter extinction, the fate that befell the passenger pigeon and the Carolina parakeet, is a concept universally understood, as clean as a broken bone. A species existed; now it’s gone. But the gradual ebbing of abundance strains language. Some researchers have called such losses defaunation; others know it as biological annihilation. The biologist E. O. Wilson favored Eremocene: the age of loneliness, a near and desolate future in which humankind bestrides an empty world, or perhaps drives over it.
Will their hunger for human flesh really make all the rest of us die, one after another? Did they open this road to make the forest silent of our presence?
A fire eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself. And you, Lee, have got to worry even if you must kill yourself to invent something to worry about.”
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