The biosphere is transitioning to a new state, and the old baselines no longer apply

When Panama's upwelling fails, when whales abandon routes held for millennia, when an entire ocean region's nutrient cycle collapses—these are not "environmental stories." They are the planet's regulatory systems shifting phase. The Holocene, the period of relative climatic stability that enabled civilisation, is ending. What follows has no name because we have no maps for it. We cannot contain this, but we can point at it: the coral we edit, the beavers we celebrate, the microplastics we filte ...