What will the children of tomorrow think when they look back on Cop26 in Glasgow? That, apparently, is what everybody wants to know. What will they make of what we did?
If the children of tomorrow ever do get round to looking back on Cop26, what they will find is a very large amount of video footage of very highly self-regarding people, gravely wondering what the children of tomorrow will think of them.
And, you know, not to be unduly negative, but there is, as things stand, a fair chance that the children of tomorrow, up there on the high plateau playing folk songs on flutes whittled from radioactive tree bark, will look back on Cop26 and ask, “Were you taking the actual piss or what?”
It’s not merely that the children of tomorrow might wonder, for example, why Boris Johnson was so obsessed with them, when his children of today he prefers to disown, ideally in court. Mainly, it’s the tragic fact that he really did stand there, telling the rest of the world that it was “one minute to midnight” and that they must “act now”.
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ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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