THATCH to the FUTURE!

Nicolas Neuhold

| Luxembourg

| 00:07:57

Saturday 22 June 10:15 AM

When participants at a climate conference in the year 2033 canâ€™t agree on anything, head negotiator GERTA (not Greta!) snaps and suggests â€œThe only thing you could agree on is going back in time and having people THEN fix the problemâ€. The sarcastic outburst is accepted as a rather wonderful idea, only for Gerta to reveal that they actually have access to a time machine.

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