Thus The Guardian today. “Cancer, dementia, heart disease, and new—or new strains of—infectious diseases are what modern westerners are dying of now,“ elaborates the newspaper. Dementia attracted my attention. According to the article, it is not a disease, but the outcome of many different conditions. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common of these. All forms of dementia involve memory loss, confusion, and personality change. It is not an inevitable outcome of getting old, but the likelihood of developing it grows with age. With the explosion of babyboomers, dementia is flourishing now. By 2025, the number of cases of dementia in Britain is expected to reach a million, and by 2050 that number is expected to double. Although there are many ways to fight dementia, the main problem facing Britain is the lack of funds. Remembering my father, whose senile dementia got the better of him in his late eighties, I cannot but wonder about this particular “killer” in the west. It may be hard on the families of those who suffer from it, but it strikes me as quite a boon for them personally. As climate change is likely to get quite dramatic between 2025 and 2050, dementia may well be the best way out of the mayhem. Climate change, what climate change?