My memories of the overwhelming exuberance of vegetation I saw in south and east Asia, where I was in action in the Second World War. The Sumatran jungle captured my imagination. I also remember a vast banyan tree in the Calcutta Botanical Gardens, said to be the biggest tree in the world. The power and energy of these plants was amazing. The situation is awful. To think we may lose the polar bears. And the idea that bees are in peril. If the bees go, there goes fertilization. We follow. Climate change is very difficult to deal with because there's no carrot at the end of it. The temptation for present generations to hope future generations will sort it out with a technological fix is very strong.
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