“The reason radical changes in the human environment caused by the industrial revolution are so anxiety-producing is not that they keep us from predicting a benign future for ourselves. We’ve never been able to do that anyway. It’s that, apparently, major changes in Homo sapiens’s physical environment are occurring with what scientists believe is unprecedented speed. However well individual people might manage in the face of these changes in the decades ahead, the future of the species remains as open a question as it was for all the other hominins we’re related to, none of whom, it is important to note, are still with us.”
– Barry Lopez, Horizons, (2019) p. 256