It seems politicians, on occasions, are capable of doing something vaguely right. Forever there’s bickering between parties, leaders, countries, independent action groups blah blah blah. They’re always banging on about what they could do and why their policies are better than everyone elses and hey, vote for us and it’s a vote for ARRRRRRGH. Enough. They say all this stuff, but never actually do it. Well, the debt relief for poor countries seems to be a step in the right direction. It’s not the only answer, but it’s at least a start. The debt that these countries face is crippling to their chance of ever getting themselves out of poverty. Sure, they’re in debt for a squillion reasons and lalala… who cares. They’re in debt, we can help them, so we are.
But the saddening thing? It was so short-lived. In amongst the clamour of the fantastic news, there’s this political gem. I mean seriously. “Hey guys, we all know that this big fat conference we’re gonna have is basically gonna contribute more damage to the environment in 2 days than pretty much the whole of Taunton does in a year, but well, I know, here’s a paltry £50k to some random cause in Africa.” Puhleeeeze. Leaders have just written off some £22bn worth of debt… again 22 BILLION pounds, and somehow 50 thousand quid is enough to make up for a bunch of fat politicians eating caviar in the backs of their helicopters. It’s outright madness.
If politicians had any kind of sense, they wouldn’t need to offer this £50k, they would just actually have a conference which IS green. I mean, for fuck’s sake.