Year after year, we watched species disappear, landscapes rendered unrecognisable, seasons happening out of joint, communities poisoned with chemicals. At the time of writing, despite everything we already knew, fossil fuel companies were still opening up new oil and gas fields. That is not how it felt for us, right now, when we had all the information but hadn’t acted radically enough. If things have improved between my lifetime and yours, perhaps you look back and see humanity gradually coming to its senses, correcting our ways. From this view, the future felt less like a distant horizon and more like the oncoming edge of a towering waterfall. I know that doing so has always been a challenge, but in my time, there was a felt certainty about the decline of the human-habitable world that had become especially pervasive. I am writing to you from a moment when it was very hard for some of us to think about the future. Normal text size Larger text size Very large text size
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