Thirty-six years ago, the American journalist Bill McKibben wrote The End of Nature , the first mass-market book about climate change. The book warned, from the perspective of a lover of nature, about the dangers posed by a warming planet:

“Changes in our world which can affect us can happen in our lifetime — not just changes like wars but bigger and more sweeping events. Without recognizing it, we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change. The rain will still fall, and the sun will still shine. When I say ‘nature,’ I mean a certain set of human ideas about the world and our place in it … More and more frequently, these changes will clash with our perceptions, until our sense of nature as eternal and separate is finally washed away and we see all too clearly what we h

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