Thus, welcome to the ultimate hat trick of the twenty-first century: an accelerating climate catastrophe, Western democracies sliding into the hands of Nazi parties and brazen crime lords, and an economic crash that will hit us like a brick the size of the moon.

For the longest time, there were urgent warnings about the kind of Earth we don’t want to leave for our children and grandchildren. These warnings are a thing of the past now, an area of interest for the historian. Today, even if you happen to be an octogenarian, this triple whammy will very likely catch up with you. And for all those of us who are younger than that, in our forties or fifties or sixties even, who’ve felt more or less safe until now from this horrible future we keep creating, sufficiently insulated by life expectancies and our own private modicums of prosperity, it has slowly come closer and closer to become our reality instead, and we’ll soon be able to take a picture.