When we fail to see the connections between things, we fail to anticipate the consequences of any one thing. A century before we began slaying entire ecosystems with pesticides meant to eradicate individual species, before we began tinkering with individual genes in the complex cathedral of the genome, the naturalist John Muir exulted that "when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe" — an exultation that now reads as an admonition.
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And we built this extraordinary eye, an independent source of truth about what's happening on the planet. But an eye that's not connected to a functional nervous system and a body capable of response, that eye is just a witness.
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The dog did nothing in the nighttime. That was the curious incident, remarked Sherlock Holmes. Sometimes nothing is very important.
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