He seemed dead, but perhaps “dead” meant something different. Perhaps it meant something less permanent. - Adrian Tchaikovsky

Long-term thinking requires a clarity the natural human mind is not good at.

Aunt Charla is one of those people who take pride in not knowing about anything that’s changed in the world in the last thirty years.

The emergent ecologies that were recolonising the place were very light on mammals and birds. You got little ones, mostly nocturnal even when their ancestors had been diurnal. The big winners were amphibians, reptiles, bugs. Because hot and damp works for ectotherms.