Alas, we are both too smart for our own good and not nearly smart enough. Our manipulations of nature are perforce short-sighted: we are blinded by both its vastness and its proximity, its constant flux amid illusory stability. As the Marine Reserve scientists have pointed out, kill the bull sharks and you might get something worse. The world as we know it -- and as we have loved it -- depends upon its predators for balance, yet we keep choosing the unknown world without them, the brave new world with as-yet-unpredicted monsters in it. -- Bucky Mcmahon, Heart of Sharkness in the Best American Sports Writing 2014.
Posted on: Wed, 19 Nov 2014 05:47:28 +0000