“The alarm bells are deafening, and the evidence is irrefutable:  greenhouse‑gas emissions from fossil-fuel burning and deforestation are choking our planet and putting billions of people at immediate risk.  Global heating is affecting every region on Earth, with many of the changes becoming irreversible.”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres, August 2021

We are in the grip of an unfolding tragedy of climate, ecosystem and, arguably, social collapse. In the coming decades, how might this affect Tweeddale lives, lands, livelihoods and loves? How might we choose to respond, both individually and collectively? Assuming he lives to tell the tale, Dominic Ashmole looks back from 2044.