Antarctica
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Ice was omnipresent here – and forever. That there could be a landmass below the ice-blocks seemed, to Hektor Maille's mind, to be quite a bold claim. From this, however, resulted that this frozen water claimed to be a continent, exactly like Africa, America or Asia. The melt down of the Poles would one day reveal the truth, thought Maille. And if, indeed, there was firm ground below the ice, then, working on pure theory, there must also be something growing on it – at least some sort of lichen. An earth ball with the curve of its bottom sporting a gigantic patch of moss would, without doubt, cut a unique figure in the otherwise serious-looking expanse of the universe – to some extent like a planet with pubic hair. This image alone was reason enough to not take the issue of global warming too far. It almost seemed as if he could already smell the first lichen.