Dinyar Godrej on the need for reconnection.
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We have reached a frozen moment in a heating world.
Our natural world is being increasingly denatured. There go the animals: extinctions are now up to a thousand times the natural background rate,1 and between 150 and 200 species become extinct every 24 hours.2 Watch out, plants: a fifth of your sort, up to 100,000 species, could also soon be extinct.3 Some 80,000 acres of rainforest vanish off the face of the earth – each day.4
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