Joy and despair in Alaska: Adam Weymouth on his 2,000 mile odyssey

Weymouth spent months paddling through the wilderness in a canoe, tracking the mighty king salmon. What he found was an ecosystem - and a culture - under threatThe sun is shining on the rear deck of Adam Weymouth's barge, and the hawthorn along the banks of the river Lea is bright with new growth. But despite the natural beauty all around him in this pocket of London, he's finding it hard to believe we can avert climate catastrophe: "It's just really hard to give a fuck.""Living where we do, even with the best will in the world and being as informed as you could be, nature is incredibly abstract," Weymouth says. "When the shit hits the fan, we're going to turn up the air conditioning. The bread might get a bit more expensive, but we'll be all right for quite a while." Continue reading...