21 Extinctions for a Button: Will We Let Nature’s Invaders Save Us This Time?
We wiped out 21 freshwater mussel species just to make beautiful buttons, yet we still romanticize the ‘craft’ behind the carnage. Now, as invasive zebra mussels choke our rivers, we’re trying to use the same industrial greed to solve the crisis. It’s time to cure our Industrial Ecological Amnesia before nature sends a bill we can’t pay.