Those numbers may not sound like a big deal until one reflects that average global temperatures were "only" 5 degrees cooler at the height of the last Ice Age. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

“I have spent all my life resisting the desire to end it.” Letters To Milena

"Now Gregor's sister also had to help his mother with the cooking; although that was not so much bother as no-one ate very much." Metamorphosis and Other Stories

“I wanted to excel in your eyes, show my strength of will, wait before writing you, first finish a document, but the room is empty, no one is minding me – it’s as if someone said: leave him alone, can’t you see how engrossed he is in his own affairs, it’s as if he had a fist in his mouth. So I only wrote half a page and am once again with you, lying on this letter like I lay next to you back then in the forest.” (16 July 1920) Letters To Milena