On their road to Bali, where the agreement about environmental protection reached in Kyoto will soon be pushed beyond 2012, the United Nations administrators and scientists are repeating over and over again that the world is in serious peril because of rapid climate change. The next ten years are crucial, they claim, or it will be too late to do anything. The message is loud and clear, and it pops up in the media with increasing regularity. When I stumbled upon a two-page article with the same message in one of the best local newspapers, I cringed. “Enough,” I almost heard myself growl. Large pictures of forest fires, cracked fields, floods, and collapsing glaciers took most of the two pages, while the text took only about a fifth of the space to announce the untold catastrophes yet to come. One of the main problems with climate change, a leading scientist associated with the UN effort is reported as saying, is the indifference in the richest countries in the world. Soon enough the main problem will shift to outright animosity to all the news of this ilk, though. Indifference will be one of our least problems. For we all know deep down that the game is already as good as lost.