The trouble with skyscrapers...

Quite often I find myself in meetings in skyscrapers around the world. This bothers me, as whenever I look out through a window, I only see clouds and fog. The atmosphere prevents people in skyscrapers from seeing the real world. For example, when I wanted to look at the sun or the moon, I couldn’t. When I wanted to look at the stars, I couldn’t.

The trouble with skyscrapers is that they keep your head in the clouds all the time and make you lose your vision. This is why my decision was to come down to earth. If we don’t come back to earth, we find that we become like overinflated balloons, going ahead and above with no direction, which can be harmed by any pin prick. Then we pop and produce nothing but useless hot air.

When you come back to earth, you can see what is around you, without the need to see it on TV. You can look at the stars and get involved.

In my opinion, if we want to tackle climate change, we cannot do it from the position of a cocoon in a skyscraper, letting life go past us below. If we want to change the world and the people, we cannot do it from in front of a TV screen. Keeping our heads off the clouds ensures we will keep grounded and help those who need it most.

We are in partnership with the grass, with the animals and the environment. To make a better world for all of us, we have to step out of the cocoon of the skyscraper and act, instead of watch.