A few years ago, I read a book. I did not finish it, thinking it was very unrealistic. The book was called "2084" by Jostein Gaarder. It was about the climate change and how drastic the world will change. I thought that this would never be real. I knew about the climate change and that it was not good but, I mean, what can a few celsius change? A few weeks ago, I read an article that, if we don't change anything, there will be a mass extinction in 2050. That was the point were my view on life changed. 2050. I'm 45. I will never grow old. Never have grandchildren, maybe never have children. The thought of never becoming a mother made me really sad. I always wanted to be a mother. When I was little I imagined that when I'm 95 I will experience the 22nd century. Now maybe no one will. I thought that I will get really old because I will die of age, not of sickness or anything else, because then there will be a medicine against everything. Now I will probably die of climate. Like everyone else. Sometimes I think that maybe a few humans will survive this. Maybe I'm one of them. Maybe I will be lucky. But it's not about me. Or you. It's about us. Everyone. And maybe there's a way out of this. Maybe the world isn't running into a dead end. Maybe there's a side path to bring us all out. But to find this side path we all have to search for it. Every single one. The world has to become a team. Because now it's not about money or wealth or a big house. It's about getting all of us save. It's about knowing that our children will have the chance to grow old. That they can see the rain forests or the coral reefs not just on photos, but in real life. Maybe there is a happily ever after. Maybe there isn't. Maybe all life on earth will extinct forever. And you know what? It's all our fault. This thought makes me sick. Sometimes I hear people talking about the future. About all the great technology, about the first humans on Mars, about insects the "future-food". I never hear someone talking about that there maybe is no future. The thought of not having a future is scary and humans tend to not wanting to think about scary things. They block it out. Way more easier, isn't it? I know.
