Environment What we lost: writers on the climate crisis As the planet heats, our natural world is rapidly changing. Seven leading names recall a loss in their lifetime. By Ai Weiwei, Thomas Keneally, Richard Flanagan, Ahdaf Soueif, Orhan Pamuk, Annie Proulx and Tessa Hadley
Richard Flanagan on climate loss: Tasmanian tigers are lost to us now – and the rainforests they roamed could go the same way Just enough remains in Tasmania to remind me that we live in the great autumn of things. By Richard Flanagan