OVER THE TOP...

Seems to me that everything to do with this COP 26 thing is really over the top, bearing in mind the probability that civilisation as we know it is poised at the cliff edge with no-one willing to prevent us falling into oblivion.  There`s just so much stuff to be depressed about watching the antics surrounding this `global event.`

We`ve seen the hypocrisy - private jets, motorcades, 20,000 `delegates,` 200,000 `activists,` and I`ve lost count of the number of media `representatives` involved.  Not much has changed since the doctrine of climate change - or was it global warming? - hit our consciousness all those years ago.   Repeated warnings from the likes of St. David of Attenborough, juvenile rantings from the likes of the equally sainted Greta and the forebodings from countless `experts` have all largely gone unheeded until we the `ordinary members of the public` don`t really know who, if anyone, to believe any more.

Stuff coming out of Glasgow might give the illusion that things are happening and that real progress is being made to ensure the survival of planet Earth, but a lot of it might just be the usual political window dressing.  One example of many - Brazil apparently signing up to stop deforestation by 2030;  result? - more intensified deforestation of the Amazon rain forest in the nine years left before the appointed cut off date;  that`s if it happens at all.

Seems to me that we are heading for that fatal leap from the cliff face;  maybe that`s the fate which awaits human nature anyway and that, like the over-the-top sideshow of Glasgow, we are sleepwalking into a lemming-esque act of self destruction.  

We may be concerned about the future of `civilisation` but I`m not sure the planet is too fussed, for it will survive even if we don`t and once again I`m reminded of Sheldon Harnick`s `Merry Minuet,` which tells us that `There`s hurricanes in Florida; and Texas needs rain; they`re rioting in Africa; there`s strife in Iran;  What nature doesn`t do to us will be done by our fellow man.`

Oh well, it`s been fun while it lasted