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“Together with a group of colleagues, Jeremy Jackson would later repeat his analysis for other regions of the world like the gulf of Maine and Chesapeake Bay, finding a pattern common to all regions. Colonial expansion from Europe signaled the onset of a mass slaughter of marine megafauna that accelerated over the following centuries.”

european colonizers literally destroyed the whole fucking world

“Shifting environmental baselines cause a collective societal amnesia in which gradual deterioration of the environment and depletion of wildlife populations pass almost unnoticed. Our expectations diminish with time, and with them goes our will to do something about the losses.”