BE BRAVE

I didn’t live through the upheavals that my parents and grandparents experienced - the fall of the Berlin Wall for some, the Algerian War or the Second World War for others. It seemed to me that life was a peaceful rat race, until I understood the threats hidden behind the words and graphs of the IPCC reports, which I struggled to understand.

The prediction of those in the know was that things would get exponentially worse, hitting every area of life, with the consequences of events that might seem to have nothing to do with climate disruption. Ukraine, Gaza, the lands of Africa, all these territories ravaged by Mankind, its predatory instinct aroused by the resources to be grabbed.

We need the bravery to recognize our fragility, to weep and forgive, to look away from the abyss opening up beneath our feet, to keep on running a crazy, unquiet life to save what we can, to take care of those we love and our enemies, each in our own way.