When forest fires follow floods, pollution and scarcity set in, and biodiversity disappears in an overheated climate, it is hard to remain immune to fear. Entire areas of the planet may be uninhabitable as early as 2050. How to respond? Where to start? To avoid sinking into lethargy, the architects of Encore Heureux & and the artist Bonnefrite, in the spirit of Walter Benjamin, listed their pessimistic expectations and subsequently set out to explore the optimism of idealists.

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