Birds are lost.
Birdsong is silent where it was once noisy.
Many of us miss the noise.
Rachel Carson warned us it would come to this.
Carson was wrong about the cause.
Carson thought there was just one cause: pesticides.
She was wrong about the cause.
Pesticides are just a simple symptom.
The cause of lost birds is more complex.
We can’t find lost birds without first finding complexity.
No one wants to find complexity.