MICHAEL WOOD ON…
“What we did before in ignorance, we now do in full knowledge”
n 24 March 1768, Gilbert White, an English country vicar at Selborne in Hampshire, made an ominous note in his diary. It was the first intimation (apparently in world literature) of what is now the greatest crisis for all life on the planet: the climate crisis. White recorded an occurrence already well known to local farmers of a stinking airborne pollution known as “the Blue Smoke” or the
