I've known about this for a while – the crisis in amphibian populations – but was reminded by the Internet news item this morning.
I very much like amphibians, but even if I didn't I would be deeply saddened by this. I just don't know how much more of this I can bear to witness.
I believe it was in his diary that Nagai Kafu wrote the following, referring to his native city of Tokyo:
As I witness the extinction of the city’s spirit I feel in all my being nothing but a desire to be gone with it.
That's pretty much how I feel about all the good things of Earth currently being destroyed by the vulgar, despicable, gormless, brutish, boorish and brainless scum that we call humanity.
I'd rather not survive in a world in which they are the winners and the architects of all that is. I anticipate my disappearance eagerly.
