The dusky seaside sparrow was a small songbird once abundant within a small range in Southern Florida.

The dusky seaside sparrow was a small songbird once abundant within a small range in Southern Florida.
Since I began working on my dissertation project on the multiple ways the relationship between humans and nature is understood and enacted under climate change, one of the most important shifts in my thinking has been to see extinction not only as a scientific concept, but a social, cultural, and political phenomenon.