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Disappearing Acts<\/a><\/h3>\n
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We are living in an age of loss: the sixth mass extinction. Following this year’s shocking report that\u00a0the planet has lost half its wildlife in the past 40 years<\/a>, and the 2018\u00a0Remembrance Day for Lost Species<\/a>, I wrote this piece on art and disappearance for Dark Mountain’s ‘The Vanishing’ section. Here we look not only to extinction\u00a0\u2013 the deaths of entire species\u00a0\u2013 but to the quieter extirpations and losses that are steadily stripping our world of its complexity and beauty. How do we, as writers and artists, stay human during such times? .<\/i><\/p>\n

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What does it mean to disappear? It’s a cold night and I am shivering outside the Caf\u00e9 de Paris in London. I’m standing behind Trevor, hoping that his TV producer status will get me in, when Karen Binns, doorkeeper to this hippest of ’90s dance nights, lets me through. It’s over for you, she laughs, which in her Brooklyn back-to-front street talk, means it’s happening for me. As it turns out it was prophetic both ways. Because the last time I saw her was at a family gathering a year later, as I was about to leave the city.<\/div>\n
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She’s out of here, she announced to the chattering table. Everyone just carried on talking.
\nIt’s two minutes to twelve, she said.<\/p>\n

What does any of this have to do with extinction you might ask? Bear with me. To know how to deal with disappearance, you have to know about your own. To know that when you go, there is a world of difference between being ignored and being seen.<\/p>\n

For a few weeks now. I’ve been wondering what to write about extinction. Does the world need another elegant essay on nature in peril, another rant about palm oil deforestation?<\/p><\/div>\n

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