"As long as there are people, hope stands on shaky ground." - Elfriede Jelinek's latest trilogy describes opposing reasons for the general disintegration of the world. The deadly sun shines from above, while from below a man laments the mortality of everything and seeks a solution in the air. Climate change, with its rising temperatures, more extreme droughts and rising sea levels, threatens more than just us humans. We are still lying on the beach and getting a tan, but we can no longer ignore its transience. The end is approaching, and it is also approaching in our private lives. In the last part, the author explores the fear of loneliness, the loss of loved ones, the fear of the end of human civilization, the fear of decay. Is it still possible to avert the looming catastrophe? The Nobel Prize winner searches exhaustively for the answer to the question: Why are humans such "evil guests" on Earth?

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