The United Nations, in an apparent competition against the chart-topping music industry, revealed this week that the world has yet another hit on its hands. Alas, this 'record' isn’t so much a catchy pop melody that you listen to on the radio during your mundane, climate-controlled, and socially distanced commutes to work. Oh, no. We’re talking about a record high concentration of greenhouse gases in the planet's atmosphere. Congrats, everyone! In a report that seemed to resemble a congratulatory note (to greenhouse gases, of course, not to humanity), the World Meteorological Organization – a lesser-known section of the UN that deals with things other than diplomatic spats – announced that in the sweet-spot year of 2020, carbon dioxide concentration reached 414 parts per million. Tragically, this mega compliance to social distancing restrictions neither stopped humans from emitting CO2 nor encouraged the trees to suck in more of it. And hold on to your masks folks because this CO2 concentration is not just a merely significant global record but also the highest in the last three to five million years, revealed the report. So, technically, we've beaten the record set by our caveman ancestors, and on a whopping scale. Really puts things into perspective, doesn't it? Hurrah, Humans! We've succeeded where no other species has before - surpassing the gas-emitting capabilities of natural disasters like volcanoes, forest fires, and perhaps even dinosaurs. After all, we can't let a bunch of extinct lizards show us how it's done, right? Time to take a carbon-loaded bow, for we seem to have moved to the top of the ecological food chain, quite literally turning the heat on everyone else. On a less sarcastic note, understand this report as a wake-up alarm chirping louder than your Monday morning alarm - after hitting the snooze button five times. There's no more dismissing this with an "Alexa, snooze for 5 minutes" and rolling back into our comfortable bubble. After all, records are fun when you're making them in the Olympics, not in polluting our only home. A wise society once said, "The world is not given by our ancestors but borrowed from our children." So, let's skip the record-breaking chartbusters of blasting greenhouse gases into the sky and maybe start a new trend – one that leaves a livable world for future generations. How about 'clean & green' for a change?