Fazlur Rahman

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“Whatever happens to the beasts, soon happens to man. All things are connected.” Attributed to Seattle, chief of the Duwamish tribe.

In a world beset with intractable economic and political problems, why should the death of a tortoise matter? Because his death alerts us to our blindness to the natural world, and because he was known as the rarest creature on earth, the last of his subspecies, and we will never see his kind again.

Lonesome George, as this male tortoise was known, lived in the magical Galapagos Islands, where Charles Darwin got his idea on evolution. George lived about 100 years — not that much for a Galapagos tortoise — and died on June 24.…  Seguir leyendo »