Welcome to the Anthropocene
Maybe the Climate meeting in Paris is the start point for a change. Most world leaders seem to accept what is going on because to the high CO2 level in the atmosphere. Right now the temperature is about +2 degrees C in Stockholm. When I was a kid almost every winter gave us opportunities to ski, build snowmen and so on. Now its seldom so... What most of us don't understand is the total impact of the human activities on the planet. The Nobel price winner Paul Crutzen popularized Antrophocene as a term for the geological era we now live in. "Anthropo" means mankind: We have now influenced the The Earth so much, that the whole biosphere has changed. To be mindful means to see things as they are, and to accept them - and know it's time to see the very dangerous scenario that can be our future. But Crutzen also wants us to see the great achievement that we have made; democracy, United Nations and so on.... He was also one of the researchers that found the