Monbiot mourns the alleged CO2-induced loss of the alleged "soft and steady climate which has treated us kindly for so long"

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Why, they will ask, should we bother, if the inevitable destination is the loss of so much of what we hold dear: the forests, the brooks, the wetlands, the coral reefs, the sea ice, the glaciers, the birdsong and the night chorus, the soft and steady climate which has treated us kindly for so long?

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