Some find all this thrilling: Florida has become an open-air zoo, richer in species than ever before. To others, it's the harbinger of a new and depressingly undifferentiated age, when the old biological borders begin to fade and everyplace starts to look like every other. Ecologists have even given it a name: the Homogecene.
"Florida was underwater not too long ago and it will be again soon. Global warming is gonna fix this problem."
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/20/090420fa_fact_bilger
Burkhard Bilger, The Natural World, “Swamp Things,” The New Yorker, April 20, 2009, p. 80
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