Three-quarters
of flying insects in nature reserves across Germany have vanished in
25 years, with serious implications for all life on Earth, scientists
say
Putting this simply
with minimal fuss:
the fly in the ointment?
Apparently us.
Volcanoes and meteors
could do us in
or rising seas
or pollution.
Which brings us (again!)
to Fermi's question:
in time and space
are we the only “intelligent” race?
Likely as not
others came and went.
Intelligence being
a failed experiment.
This is not about our burning coal
or running “solutions” up the flagpole.
We are the ones for whom the bells toll,
extinction being our ultimate goal.