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George Monbiot: Surrounded by fear

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Are We Going to End the Sixth Great Extinction?

I don't use the term wilderness, but o want to see very large scale re wilding. I think it could be our only last hope. Unless we can restore eco systems on a huge scale, we really have very little hope of stopping the sixth great extinction and also of stopping climate breakdown. We've now left it too late. Merely to de carbonize our economies will ceed one point five, probably two degrees of global heating - even if we totally decarbonize all the industrial economy. And by far the quickest, cheapest, most benign way of doing that is restoring systems. As the trees come back, as the wet lands come back, they absorb vast amounts of

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