There's a scene in The Emerald Forest (a 1985 film) in which the leader of a tribe of Amazon indians reaches the edge of the rain forest, and sees the 'developed world' before him. He makes the comment that the "edge of the world" seems to get closer every time, and when he was young, the journey there from his own village took much longer. Deforestation.
Today, I had a haircut, and had a brief chat with the guy using the trimmers. When I was younger, the conversation with the barber seemed to take much longer. Now, though, the end of the haircut seems to come much earlier. Hair Loss.
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