What a Shame at Sharm that the COP 27 Climate Change Conference has been overshadowed in its first week. As Egypt hosts the 190 countries and 35,000 attendees, world events and home cares are responsible. Over 400 Private Jets rolled the folk in or some of them while to their carbon credit some walked.
As eco warriors glue themselves and hang off motorway gantries what a shame that their cause is completely detracted as they screw up everyone’s day. Cars queuing with engines on doesn’t help the carbon campaign. Add a self interest celebrity politician going off piste into the Jungle to earn £400k and eat camel penis, one begins to get the hump.
What a shame that as some try and save the planet a maniac is trying to wipe out Ukraine and devastate peoples lives. What a shame 350,000 people have to leave their homes in little boats just to get their benefits in Britain. Shame also on nations where human rights are often absent such as seen in the Post Office Scandal blogged yesterday. Shame brought upon nations built on Slavery to enrich the few and then see Democracy being destroyed by toxic leaders in mid term and end term elections.
Shame is a pity or regret and also a state of being. Shame can be put right but it can also be a lasting stain. Those wrongly accused are named and shamed when fiscal compensation is never enough recompense for damage caused. Shame that can be corrected is an opportunity as we have at the Conference at Sharm to put things right. We need energy to make Bitcoin and charge all those batteries but this will not happen overnight , shame that it has taken so long to wake up and smell the coffee.
No longer must we Cop out of the challenge but all Cop in and that starts in small steps with us all. Walking to the shop rather than driving yet these changes will come at a price and hypocrisy with all of us is rife. The pot often calls the kettle black especially on the subject of human rights where a Post Office Scandal and the shame that brought to so many is as bad as slavery or migrant worker abuse to create stadiums for vastly overpaid soccer stars to be worshipped by the masses.
Shame comes in many guises, forms and occasions. Change starts with you and me and though we are all passing through we must pass the baton to our children or your children doing unto others as we would do for ourselves. Egypt was once home of a great civilization who taught us so much yet built monuments from enforced labour paid at pittance. Yes little has changed in 4,000 years but it needs to. Rid the Shame and be the solution.
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