20/09/2026
It's our birthday. To celebrate, we called ourselves.
In 2015, in Paris, governments asked scientists for a number. In October 2018 the number arrived: 1.5 degrees, and a deadline to keep it.
On 2 September 2026 the United Nations put it in writing: that number will be exceeded. The task, they say, has shifted from avoiding it to navigating it.
So we put the 2018 us, the 2026 us and the 2050 us on the same call.
Two people answered from 2050. Same face, same age. One lives on an hour of water a day and pays fifteen euro for a coffee. The other watched the world reach 1.8 degrees and come back down.
Neither of them has hung up yet.
Happy birthday, EIIS. This year we're giving ourselves the gift: the future we want.