Last week 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg turned down an environmental prize by the Nordic Council by saying, "The climate movement does not need any more prizes." What she proposed instead was for rulers and politicians to pay attention to the research. So, if the world needs any evidence to start listening to children instead of deflecting the climate change crisis that is right in front of their eyes, it might as well take Thunberg's prize.

"We're only talking of the crisis in broad terms — that something is going to happen in the next 50 or 100 years. But it is very important for children to think about what's going to come in the next 10 years," says Bilwa Kulkarni, education officer at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalaya (CSMVS). And it is with this idea that the city museum is organising a storytelling festival for kids this weekend called Evergreen Tales — the theme being Environment and Water Conservation.