Whatever Happened to the EPA?

You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes to find a pattern in recent mass shootings throughout the world, and especially in the United States. In the most recent, the massacre of fifty worshippers at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, the assassin, a self-professed white “ethnonationalist”, laid out his beliefs explicitly. The ideological connections, the tactical similarities and the Internet subculture these crimes feed off of and into, leave no trace of doubt regarding their white nationalist parentage—or the inevitability of repetition.

The loss of predators’ populations and diversity will have wide-ranging effects on whole biological communities and biogeochemical cycles. Only in recent years have we begun to fathom how extensive these effects will become.