We’re enjoying the perfect fall weather with sunny days and cool nights. It’s the time of year when you have to lock your car otherwise people will put zucchinis in them. It’s the season of plenty if you have a garden or friends who have one. Nature at its best. I want to rejoice but this fleeting moment passes when my friend Camp leans back in his chair with a pint in one hand and his silly phone in the other. 

            ‘I’ve just got a book in by David van Reybrouk called The World and the Earth. It deals with climate change and the wrong focus of the world’s nations. The climate and laws of nature – the earth – doesn’t care if we humans care but the world is currently run by a group of old, ruthless men.’

            ‘I presume you’re talking about Trump, Putin, Xi Jinping, Modi, Erdogan and Netanyahu, to name a few that come to mind.’

            ‘Yes, they are currently building a new world order that is not focused on the future because they don’t have one themselves. They are bullies who colonize the future and rob and exploit the next generations even before they are born.’

            ‘Wasn’t the world always ruled by old men? I seem to have had the same complaint when I was young.’