• Hey, you there!
    Yes, right you. Wanna hear a story? No? Well, I'm telling anyway, so don't you try to run away! I may be old, and I know that the old people are not respected at all in these days, but you'd better listen anyway! What I am telling to you is important, so don't forget it!!
    Once upon a time, in year 2110, when I was still a child, I was in a museum with my grandfather. I loved my grandfather, because he always used to tell me stories from the times when he was still a child. They were really interesting stories about how the world had been in the 21st century. It had been really different. In those old days, the world had been shared to countries, which had each their own laws and such. The countries were always having wars about every little thing, and, can you imagine, some of the countries only fought each others because they had been doing it for a long time already.
    And then there was this Climate Change. I suppose you've already learned about it in shool? You've not? What do they teach in school nowadays?! Well, the thing is, the people were polluting the Earth with the fuels they were using in their vehicles and such. They couldn't use the solar power well enough yet. They were using oil for fuel, can you imagine! It was not only expensive, but it also was the thing causing the pollution!! And, on top of that, the people were cutting down the rainforests, which were so important to save the Earth from the Climate change and pollution!
    This is what my grandfather told me in the museum. He said I was old enough to know. I was thirteen years old, and couldn't understand what he meant. I was still a child! But Grandfather told me that when he was thirteen, he was learning about the First World War in the school. It was hard to believe, since in those days the children under 15 were not allowed to hear about violence or watch any movies that included hurting people or animals. Nowadays the age limit is eighteen years, right? Well, I guess that's why you didn't know about the Climate change either.
    Anyway, my grandfather started telling me the stories when I dropped a candy paper on the grass in front of the museum.
    "Hey, don't litter", he said to me.
    "It doesn't matter. Someone'll come soon anyway and pick it up", I said.
    "Yes it does matter!", Grandfather said angrily. "That's exactly the kind of attitude that caused the Climate change!"
    "The Climate change? What does throwing away some trash have to do with the Climate change?"
    So, my grandfather sighed, and told me this story:
    "When I was small, I was living in a country called Finland. My home was Helsinki, the capital of Finland, that was located in the southern coast of the country. The Climate Change was in its start, and the adults didn't seem to care at all. I know what they thought. 'I won't live long enough to see the worst results of the Climate change anyway, so it doesn't matter if I'm polluting. It doesn't matter, since everyone else thinks the same way as me, and my polluting doesn't matter, since there is millions, millions other people polluting all the time even if I stop doing it.' Well, they lived and died, and we, the new generation, had to suffer the results of the Climate change.
    The scientists were working all the time to invent a way to get energy for our vehicles and other machines without polluting the world more. But the Climate change was also doing its work all the time. The polar glacier was melting because the climate was becoming warmer. The sea level was rising all the time.
    It took years, but slowly the sea level came higher and higher and then, one day, it reached my home.
    The whole Helsinki sunk in the sea. I had to move far away from the coast, to Savonlinna, a small town in the eastern Finland, and there I've always been living after that.
    Well, after 50 years of hard work, the scientists invented a way to use the solar power to replace the oil. The countries had disappeared 20 years before that, and the whole Earth had become a one big country, like it is nowadays.
    But many people lost their homes because of the Climate change, and the Earth is not the same as it was before."
    He sighed again, and then he said: "Oh, well, I think some things are better nowadays."
    You know, many animals died out because the new climate was no good for them. It's a real pity. The world is better nowadays, but it took a lot of chaos and hard work to get it to be like this. And it could easily fall into another chaos again. Even small candy papers can begome a mountain if everyone throws them on the grass, you know.