UN General Secretary Antonio Guterres, Jane Goodall of chimpanzee fame, and the prime ministers of Austria, Norway and Denmark are also in attendance.
Joschka Fischer, a previous foreign minister and Green Party member for Germany, is a so-called 'surprise guest'.
Clean Air, Clean Water and a Healthy Environment
There are huge obstacles: Lack of EU action is one.
Think Dieselgate!
Industry calling the shots.
Trucks, cars, road and building construction.
Dust everywhere.
Car parks where corn used to grow.
Cement, gravel and water
insatiable demand
holes go deeper
than a lobbyist's pockets
mountainsides
and forests
disappear almost overnight
One simple matter
- smoking in the workplace -
is permanently
on the back burner,
if it
is
even there.
The political will
is not to be seen.
Unwanted
cars will soon head south
like birds in winter
fair exchange
for unwanted
meat.
Sometimes I am glad that at 86 my future is rather limited.
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DeleteAs you are one of my role models and an inspiration to many your duty is to keep calm and carry on. You can't leave Titanic before it hits the iceberg. I won't let you, Thank you dear Pat.
DeleteI like the last verse/paragraph. So true! Austria is probably the cleanest countries I have ever visited. Ireland is terrible for not providing litter bins. Especially on the beaches and countryside.
ReplyDeleteHi Dave, Two days ago I went to see the Austrian produced film The Green Lie which was basically about industrial pollution of air and water, and monoculture and deforestation. The team went to several countries including Indonesia, South America, Germany, USA. There were less than a dozen of us in the cinema. Less than that number own more wealth than haldf of the world's population. The wire pullers and social engineers are not interested in the idea of a clean planet or even the health oftheir workers or their children as much as they are far more interested in fast cars, fast food, fast weapons of war, and plastic water.
DeleteVery true Gwil. I often think that they are not interested in a clean planet.
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