excerpt from the beginning of the talk

“One late spring, early summer morning, I woke up in the flat that I lived in Chelsea, with my now wife Susie, and looked up at the enormous skylight over the living room and saw that, yet again, it was grey skies and rain. And I remember standing there screaming at it, something along the lines of "what have I done to deserve this".

“What have I done to deserve this weather” Nick Cave writes referring to the annoying rainy weather, a question that is almost trivial and banal but nowadays and within our context, the question can also be read differently...

Taking into consideration especially extreme weather phenomena, the heat and cold waves, the floods and the droughts or even wild fires…let's try to ask again:
What have we done to deserve these weathers,
And, also who makes the weather today anyway?

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