CAN MONITORING DECLINING SPECIES BE DEPRESSING?
Yes and no. I am fascinated by life, but I don’t enjoy seeing so much just slipping away. Every generation thinks that now is normal. It isn’t. But I’m glad I am the age I am. I have seen things no one will see again and I have loved doing it. But I see things happening now on the planet that will not end well.
WHY DO YOU SAY YOU’RE GLAD?
Because I won’t be around.
– from an interview with Darrel Frost, the chief herpetology curator for the American Museum of Natural History
I was just having this conversation with a friend – that this is one of a million reasons I chose not to have children. I will feel lucky not to be around for the disappearance of the elephants, myself.
