The tempo mismatch between ecological time and human time

The freshwater fish have been collapsing for fifty years. The corals are bleaching on decadal cycles now. The gray whales are leaving their ancient migration routes because the Arctic food supply has shifted. The dam removal movement is accelerating — but dams were built over a century, and the fish populations needed yesterday cannot wait for tomorrow. This is the fish too big for any format to contain: ecological collapse operates on evolutionary timescales while human attention operates on n ...