A symbolic handover from adults to children is needed. What is needed is care for the common home - that mistreated planet of ours, with the more or less onerous co-responsibility of all of us. Only this paradigm reversal, with children teaching and sensitising adults, can lead to real hope for change. Children guard a sense of beauty that is still intact. Let them speak to us. And as they listen to their grandparents, we try to listen to them.