Oblivion. Works. At least for some time. 'I don't want to be aware of what is going on.' The statement came in the midst of a conversation at a local restaurant. The responsible, accountable, creative, middle-class parents, sipping on perfectly chilled white wine in a late, too-warm European afternoon. The children are no longer playing. Five of them sit hunched over their parents' or their own mobile phones, playing games, floating through virtual realities as if to save their parents from the uncomfortable task of being parents. We are edging ever closer to the point of no return. According to a team of scientists from around the world, if we continue on our current path, the planet's so-called 'carbon budget' could be used up in just three years. That budget is the final line we are not supposed to cross if we want even a coin-toss chance of limiting global warming to one and a half degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels. That was the hope, the promise of the Paris Agreement...
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