I had this song in my head as we drove around some of the rural areas in northern Uganda 4 years ago and saw shreds of plastic in the roadside, in the rivers and in the bush. What have we done? And what are we allowing to continue to be done?
I don't have high hopes of COP27, sadly, although I am praying I am proved wrong!
As we trash the planet, look at the real damage being done to people by the current economic policies (e.g. the number of people in the UK without any significant savings to carry them through austerity) and hold on anxiously to observe the threadbare state of democracy in the USA I can only hark back (irreverently) to one of the key political watershed moments of my teenage years....
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