#15 Look to the stars

Once in a while, take a break from your usual evenings activities and look at the stars.

It's tranquil, inspiring and 100% carbon-free entertainment. Psychologically, it has the more positive impact on your brain than even the best TV shows—we have our 'chimp brains' to thank for that.

More entertaining still, look at the stars and count the number of places we've found up there as inhabitable as Earth. At the moment, that number still stands at zero. A few possible candidates we might be able to reach in a few centuries. But there's no great prospect for escape if everything turns to **** here on our own Planet Earth.

Yes, we can go to Mars

We might even make it to Mars in the next decade. But have you seen it up there? It's cold, it's dry, and it's got very little atmosphere. If it ever was inhabitable, it stopped being so billions of years ago. It's hardly a fallback option.

As Mark Berners-Lee says, there is no Planet B.

Take some time to reflect

When you've had enough of stargazing, Look around you and decide how you want your own world to be in ten, twenty years time. If you want it to stay like it is now, then now is the time to act. On our current path, we've only got a few years left of this being what life is like. Don't waste them imagining it'll all be fine. Invest that time in making positive change.

If you want it to be not just the same but more— better than it is now, then now is the time to act—and act harder.

It's a long journey

The more we act, the more we share, the more we have a movement towards a healthier, safer, more prosperous future for us all.

— 200 ways