Our House Is on Fire

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This could have been my story. An autobiography of sorts, had I been so inclined.

But autobiographies don’t really interest me.

There are other more important things.

This story was written by Svante and me together with our daughters, and it’s about the crisis that struck our family.

It’s about Greta and Beata.

But above all it’s about the crisis that surrounds and affects us all. The one we humans have created through our way of life: beyond sustainability, divorced from nature, to which we all belong. Some call it over-consumption, others call it a climate crisis.

The vast majority seem to think that this crisis is happening somewhere far away from here, and that it won’t affect us for a very long time yet.

But that’s not true.

Because it’s already here and it’s happening around us all the time, in so many different ways. At the breakfast table, in school corridors, along streets, in houses and apartments. In the trees outside your window, in the wind that ruffles your hair.

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