Ian McEwan has shared his hopes for how humankind "will scrape through" amid ongoing climate change fears.
The British author was speaking ahead of the release of his new book, What We Can Know, which is set a hundred years into the future in a UK partially submerged by rising seas.
Human activities are causing world temperatures to rise, posing serious threats to people and nature. Things are likely to worsen but scientists argue urgent action can still limit the worst effects of climate change.
The Atonement and Enduring Love writer told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that nature "comes back" if you stop "doing bad things".
He said: "I've really noticed, over the last 20 years, that although we are deeply worried about climate change - and it doesn't seem to be getting better at the moment - that across the world, there are just hundreds of pinpoints of light, of little projects of re-wilding, of all kinds of biological movements that are really very hopeful."
