Granta 83: This Overheating World

The world we were born into has gone. We shall never completely recapture its climate, its seasons, the way its plants grew and its animals lived. This is not a wild-eyed prediction, a man on the street with a placard ('THE END IS NIGH'). Respectable science knows it and says it. Nine of the world's ten warmest years since records were kept have occured in the past fourteen years. Some calculations suggest that the average English garden moves south, climactically, by a distance of sixty-six feet every day.

Whos is responsible? We are-our habits. Can we prevent it? Too late. Can we moderate it, slow it, eventually reverse it? Yes-if we try.

This outdoor issue of Granta reports from our present and future world.

With: Edward Burtynsky, Marian Botsford Fraser, James Hamilton-Paterson, Matthew Hart, Thomas Keneally, Mark Lynas, Philip Marsden, Bill McKibben, Wayne McLennan, Maarten 't Hart.