Yangtze River Dolphin, RIP

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How do we mark such loss? Walters quotes Phyllis Windle, a senior scientist with the Union of Concerned Scientists' scientific integrity program, who in an essay titled 'The Ecology of Grief,' noted that 'Our external as well as our internal worlds may make environmental losses difficult to mourn. We have almost no social support for expressing this grief.'

Pointing out that 'mourning begins with remembrance,' Walters believes that, 'To forget what we had is to forget what we have lost. And to forget what we have lost means never knowing what we had to begin with. That would be among the greatest tragedies of all.'

Go there >> Yangtze River Dolphin Driven to Extinction

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And there >> Saying Goodbye

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