COP26 and ROBBERS?

 So, it's on starting Sunday. Hope the canapes are artistic, the three-course meal delicious and the desserts out of this world. All, of course cooked with no fossil fuel in sight. I have been to a few of these get-togethers of African countries in Africa -- the representatives from the poorer parts of Africa took the daily allowances and saved it to take back to their households. 

  Our accommodation would be paid for by our sponsors, so we stayed in 4-star hotels in places like Blantyre and Freetown. I would go down to the hotel dining room for a meal, (I was earning an expatriate wage) but my counterparts ate the meagre food they had brought from their homes. I would have to personally drag them to the dining room and offer to pay for their meals, to salve my high-earning conscience.

  I am delighted the countries are meeting to plan their behaviour in the coming years. Occasionally, I wonder what fraction of the Paris Agreement got adhered to by the Big Guns. I am hoping this COP 26 will not be another shower of the nitrogenous stuff. Are they planning for ways of monitoring the post-COP behaviour of the rich and the greedy?

  China has agreed to make an appearance, but apparently it is only making a token attempt to plan the reduction of its carbon emissions. Our esteemed leader spoke to the Chinese President today. Well Done! Except Mr Xi  Jinping would not have been impressed by our P M's stuttering and stammering.

  I have often wondered what exactly our esteemed P M actually cares about. Not the poor of this country, not the 'to be levelled up' North of this nation, and certainly not his blond thatch. Sometimes I think he sleeps in his trousers and walks out without ceremony, entitled, to the parliament or wherever. Somebody should buy him a hair brush. 

  Can we trust Boris Johnson to WORK for a successful execution of COP 26? WORK is not a word he likes. Alok Sharma will be the in the limelight. I hope he is able to bring the gathering together, including the robbers who are out only for their own profit.

  Greta (what a girl!) is out and protesting -- I hope she can keep the so-and-sos in line. As for me, I've always believed all of us can do our bit:

    switch to electric cars or use public transport; plant trees, respect our wild and wondrous places, teach our next generation about climate change and how it affects their world...

  We need to remember that this world is all we have, it belongs to all the living creatures on it now and in the future, and its resources are NOT for the rich countries to seize and gobble. UK's history in this respect has been shameful. We have a long way to go to redeem ourselves.