Blackbird (Remastered 2009) - The Beatles

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Man4Xw8Xypo

Ludovico Einaudi - Divenire (Visualiser)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAPapYhDSUc

Mesmerising...

Ludovico Einaudi - "Elegy for the Arctic" - Official Live (Greenpeace)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DLnhdnSUVs

Stunning :sparkle:

Ludovico Einaudi performs an original piece "Elegy for the Arctic", on the Arctic Ocean to call for its protection, on June 17th, 2016

 With a grand piano on a floating platform in front of a glacier, Einaudi played an original piece composed for the cause

Roy Orbison and Friends - "A Black and White Night"

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WLY7P07OSwI

Frim wiki : The special consisted of a performance of many of Orbison's hits at the then Ambassador Hotel's Coconut Grove nightclub in Los Angeles, filmed on September 30, 1987, approximately fourteen months before his death. Three songs, "Blue Bayou", "Claudette", and "Blue Angel", were filmed but not included in the original broadcast due to time constraints.

Other celebrity admirers of Orbison were in the audience, including David Lynch, Billy Idol, Patrick Swayze, Billy Bob Thornton, Sandra Bernhard and Kris Kristofferson. The backing band was the TCB Band, which accompanied Elvis Presley from 1969 until his death in 1977: Glen Hardin on piano, James Burton on lead guitar, Jerry Scheff on bass, and Ronnie Tutt on drums. Male background vocalists, some of whom also joined in on guitar, electric organ and keyboards were Bruce Springsteen, Tom Waits, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther and Steven Soles. The female background vocalists were k.d. lang, Jennifer Warnes and Bonnie Raitt. During the end credits, several of the band members are shown talking about how Orbison influenced them.

Just read and currently reading, with detailed emoji reviews. — jamalrob

:up: :100: :sparkle: :starstruck: :cool:

Simples for Short Story Competition :party:

Reader's Digest

Funny & Humor - Cartoons
Looking for a little humor to be drawn in (literally) to your life? Well, you no longer have to have a copy of the funny pages to laugh at some hilarious cartoons–we’ve got a bunch of laugh out loud drawings right here.

https://www.rd.com/funny/cartoons/

The life of a child is hard. Do you remember? — Primperan

Life is hard. That's why we have cartoons. And such...
Art and creativity. For fun or serious reflection shared.

'Do you remember?' Great question.
What do we remember about our childhood; our influences and context ?

The stories we are told, the photographs we hold, the dreams we are sold ?
Fairy tales, myths and monsters. Moments in time. Our small lives framed.

The stories we tell ourselves - how true are they ?
How do we fare along the way ?

This cartoon thread was started fairly frivolously.
Now I wonder about the life and role of the cartoonist as a shaper.
Time to turn to Wiki...?

Wiki was never there for me as an inquisitive child.
Perhaps just as well...
I might never have explored the woods for the trees.

Thanks for that.
I don't really know Calvin and Hobbes that well.
Gotta love Hobbes saving Calvin from his nightmares - 'Another typical school day?'

'Squeak, squeak, squeak' :smile:
Is Hobbes always the hero ?

From First Dog on the Moon:
Many folk struggled and it was a tough year but we made it and now here is a cartoon
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/10/what-was-the-nicest-thing-to-happen-to-you-in-2021-surely-something-good-happened

As usual, BTL comments are :cool: :sparkle:

First Dog on the Moon
Farm animals
A Sheep Story

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/03/living-with-sheep-it-is-clear-that-they-have-sheep-hopes-and-dreams-they-also-have-sheep-ideas

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More wags and tales in BTL comments. One story about the Babe piglets - for @Shawn !
Another wheeling in the sheep...real funny... and then...

This from 'AwakenstoEmptiness':

If ever you are feeling down and bummed out about the world I suggest spending one of the best 52 minutes of your life by watching the documentary “Wild and Woolly: An Elephant and His Sheep”. You will never look at sheep the same way again I promise you.

*****

A friendship between a baby elephant and Albert the sheep.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Qt833YiJRc

:sparkle: :flower:
'Brainwashed' - quite the title...haven't listened to it all. Thanks for sharing, again :cool:

Appreciating this and all the other haunting, atmospheric tracks posted by others I've missed out on.
This page is something else... other-worldly...

Thanks :sparkle:

Too Much Talking

https://xkcd.com/2134/

Beautiful tribute, thanks :sparkle:

Reminded me of the 'Concert for George', 29th November, 2002.
The Set List:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concert_for_George

Joe Brown closed the show with a rendition of "I'll See You in My Dreams" on ukulele, one of Harrison's favourite instruments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfVPMMo4HQs

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Here you can find George's handwritten note with signature ('Keoki') and sketch, dated 2/2/99:

“Crackers” may be the perfect word for Harrison’s uke-philia; he uses it himself in the adorable note above from 1999. “Everyone I know who is into the ukulele is ‘crackers,’” writes George, “you can’t play it and not laugh!” Harrison remained upbeat, even during his first cancer scare in 1997, the knife attack at his home in 1999, and the cancer relapse that eventually took his life in 2001. The ukulele seemed a sweetly genuine expression of his hopeful attitude.

Great article with embedded videos, including:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMJEtLjnO7E&t=

....Harrison and an old-time acoustic jazz ensemble (including Jools Holland on piano) play one of those “old numbers”—“Between The Devil and Deep Blue Sea”—in 1988

From: https://www.openculture.com/2014/08/george-harrison-explains-why-everyone-should-play-the-ukulele-with-words-and-music.html

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George Harrison - What Is Life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiH9edd25Bc

Love, Peace and Fun :cool:

I know that interpretation of what other people say is context- and situation-dependent. But do you still need some common sense in order to correctly interpret what others say or write? — Cidat

This is quite the question.
I've been thinking about it. Don't have much time to write just now but...
I wondered whether 'common-sense' was the same as 'gumption'.
Found this:
https://www.writingtips.cc/sense-vs-common-sense-vs-good-sense-vs-horse-sense-vs-gumption-vs-judgment-vs-wisdom/

Then, the 'interpretation of what other people say' - a real mine or mind-field.
Just putting this link here for the time being:
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/emotional-freedom/201402/three-techniques-read-people

As to how 'correct' we will ever be as to what is said, written or acted on....hmm...
Great discussion so far :up:

Gotta go :cool:

Keep it simple; keep it nostalgic; keep it racist; repeat hypnotically. Something like this:

"Bring back our White Christmases!" :scream: — unenlightened

:lol:
OMG, that was the best laugh I've had in forever. Really needed that :100: :sparkle:

Re UKIP - got their policy through — unenlightened

Didn't they just. Major job done and dusted.
>>> Brexit :rage:

What lessons can be learned, then, from those wishing successful outcomes to Cop26 ?
How to engage the masses ?
Fear of incoming...floods ?

This is more about changing our lifestyles and habits of consumption. We are fighting ourselves, our impulses, what we think we need.

Expect to become poorer and learn to live simple and consume little. — unenlightened

Yes. I think many are already poorer and consuming less.
However, for so long, shopping was ( still is ) seen as 'retail therapy'. Buy this and you'll feel better.
Be better. More beautiful. Sexy and Superior.
Buy the best toys and labels for Christmas. Keep everyone happy by spending money.
Even if you didn't have it. Credit cards made everything easy - just one swipe.

Self-esteem wrapped up in a red, satin bow.
Humans, eh ? :roll:

At the moment trying to take responsibility feels hopeless. Like trying to control a wild horse. Gives me more pressure, more feelings of inadequacy, and the feeling like I am choosing to be stuck and that therefor I am a bad lazy person.

But I do think sometimes I am truly an evil person behind my mostly pleasant agreeable exterior. And that deep down I would rather be a force of destruction to the world at large. — Yohan

Seriously, listen to these guys.

I'd tell a doctor the same thing you said in the OP.
No point in suffering when there's help available. — Shawn

If you have concerns, best to seek out a qualified medical doctor for clarification and support, not an internet forum. — Tom Storm

Sounds like you need immediate support from qualified and experienced people.
Stop thinking about it. Be good to yourself and take care :sparkle:

Here, the GP would be first call or an Emergency Helpline such as Samaritans.
What do you have where you live ?

https://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/guides-to-support-and-services/crisis-services/helplines-listening-services/

From the mind website, link to worldwide support:
https://www.befrienders.org/

The Mind website also advises what you need to consider before calling a helpline.

Stay safe.

Vote green. — unenlightened

I meant to reply to this and other aspects of your post, including the video which I haven't yet watched.
Voting Green would seem a sensible thing to do but some see it as a wasted vote, given our political electerol system.
However, it has to be said the Greens have made a significant impact; people are paying attention and taking them seriously. Thanks to Caroline Lucas speaking out loud and clear, here:

Caroline Lucas on climate, consumerism and Cop26: ‘Boris Johnson is an absolute disaster’
by Emine Saner.

If Caroline Lucas has always seemed an optimistic sort of politician, that outlook is being pushed to breaking point. Sitting through the budget last week was, says Lucas, “an unbelievable experience. It was like being in some weird parallel universe where there wasn’t a climate emergency, and we weren’t about to host the world’s nations at this big climate summit.”

It should have been a moment when the chancellor, Rishi Sunak, “was turbocharging the funding for the net zero programme”, says the Green party MP, ahead of the Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow, which opened on Sunday. “It should have been the point where he reversed that unforgivable cut in aid, where we demonstrated some strong climate policies. Instead, the headlines were about cutting the cost of short-haul flights.” — Guardian: Cop26 - Caroline Lucas Interview

About Cop26, Lucas admits that it’s hard, looking at the evidence, to feel optimistic.
And yet...she remains hopeful...

... “The public pressure and movements are gathering like never before. We know the public want leadership on this – they want the government to go further, they are absolutely up for bolder and more ambitious action. I take some hope from that, but on the evidence right now, I think it’s not too late, but it’s going to be tough.”

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I hadn't expected this thread to take a scifi turn...but yeah, of course - it is imagination based on reality; our lives, fears and hopes. The stories past, present and future.

When I was a teenager I read a lot of scifi, including some who included sea level changes. Like Paris or New York under water...
Cover art for: Valérian - La Cité des Eaux Mouvantes, by Jean-Claude Mézières, 1970 — Olivier5

The cover is too beautiful.
I didn't read scifi until way past average age of adulthood. I just didn't see its relevance.
Shows how wrong a person can be...

Yes to optimism but no to denial. This sub-genre of scifi (called Climate Fiction) cannot be all gloom and doom of course, and mankind may indeed still thrive. But the challenge cannot be ignored anymore, nor wished away via some future technology. — Olivier5

Indeed.
The interview picks out one of Lucas' favourite films, 'The Age of Stupid'.
Have you seen it ?

Her biggest fear is, “That we don’t act fast enough. That we exceed 1.5 degrees, that we get towards two degrees of warming and more of the extreme events that scientists have been warning are linked to the climate emergency really accelerate.” One of her favourite films is Franny Armstrong’s docudrama The Age of Stupid, set in 2055 – with its cities under floods or on fire, it looks more familiar this year than it did when it came out in 2009 – and she says a line from it still makes the hairs stand up on the back of her neck: “‘Why is it, knowing what we knew then, we didn’t act when there was still time?’ And frankly that is the question I go to bed thinking about, and wake up thinking about.”

Not sure how many fiction writers will be attending Cop26 but interesting to consider the role of sci-fi.

The future is arriving sooner than most of us expected, and speculative fiction needs to do far more to help us prepare. The warning signs of catastrophic climate change are getting harder to ignore, and how we deal with this crisis will shape the future of humanity. It’s time for SF authors, and fiction authors generally, to factor climate change into our visions of life in 2019, and the years beyond...

Science fiction, according to Jones, provides an important forum for “humanizing science and even politics/policy.” Pop culture and the popular imagination tend to depict scientists as evil or horribly misguided, and civil servants as “contemptible, petty, power-hungry bureaucrats.” But SF can show science in a more positive light, and even show how government is capable of implementing policies that “will get us out of the mess we’re currently in,” says Jones.

“With Blackfish City, I wanted to paint a realistically terrifying picture about how the world will change in the next hundred years, according to scientists,” says Miller—a picture which includes the evacuation of coastal cities, wars over resources, famines, plague, and infrastructure collapse. “But I also wanted to have hope, and imagine the magnificent stuff we’ll continue to create. The technology we’ll develop. The solutions we’ll find. The music we’ll make.”

“The Road/Walking Dead-style abject hopelessness is not entertaining or stimulating to me,” adds Miller. “Humans are the fucking worst, yes, but they’re also the fucking best.” — Tor.com: Climate change and Sci-fi authors

"Do as I say and not as I do"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U2UoR-oB1M — RussellA

Neil Oliver telling it like it is :fire: :100:
Excoriating the presidents, princes and politicians.
Encouraging the 'hollow bags of wind' to lead by example: "Walk the walk".
Biden and his cavalcade of cars...private jets for those coming to mumble some more...

Oliver suggests there should be vital, virtual meetings every day over the internet.
Now that would make sense, no ?

My point was simply that people are only powerless against climate change when they want to be powerless. There's always something to do, including through your vote. — Olivier5

Yes. It's important to state this. To prevent total apathy and encourage people still to care and to take care of self and others in the face of a growing crisis. It's a matter of adapting and quickly...
Difficult but not impossible for creatures of habit. How soon can new habits be formed ?

I wonder what plans informed adolescents and young adults are making in light of the ongoing crises which they will have to live with. — Bitter Crank

I don't know - has anyone asked them ?
Even if they are like 'informed adults', there will be a variety of responses.
Depending on where they live, their education and work opportunities, their physical/social and psychological state of wellbeing. Passion or pessimism. Swinging moods if not opinion.

A good first step is to be 'informed' in the first place.
Knowledge of what can or should be done/not done is at the heart of any decision-making process.
Does everyone agree ? Are electric cars the future ? Perhaps build that ark now...

Cop26 might only be a blah-blah-blah exercise for some politicians and world leaders but the young are making their voices heard with demands for immediate and effective action.
"There is no Planet B".

Education at primary level for all children is key to giving a sense of possibility as well as responsibility.

Growing numbers of headteachers and academics are supporting young people in their action to put pressure on governments to take the climate crisis seriously. Time is running out and young people know that that they are the ones who will suffer.

So what can schools do to support young people to address the climate emergency? Here are eight suggestions... — TES: Tackling climate crisis - 8 things schools can do

https://www.tes.com/news/8-things-schools-can-do-tackle-climate-crisis

First Dog on the Moon - Cop26 Cartoon

Net zero by 2050 is just snake oil. We need an actual hold-it-in-your-flippers zero
Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin says it’s time to crush the net zero con that puts cash over people’s future.
— Guardian: Cop26 Cartoon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/29/net-zero-by-2050-is-just-snake-oil-we-need-an-actual-hold-it-in-your-flippers-zero

First Dog on the Moon - Cop26 Cartoon

Net zero by 2050 is just snake oil. We need an actual hold-it-in-your-flippers zero
Brenda the Civil Disobedience Penguin says it’s time to crush the net zero con that puts cash over people’s future. — Guardian: Cop26 Cartoon

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/oct/29/net-zero-by-2050-is-just-snake-oil-we-need-an-actual-hold-it-in-your-flippers-zero

Soundtracks and BTL suggestions, worth checking out...

As Cop26 opens in Glasgow, we provide the soundtrack, ranging from Gojira’s metal fury to gorgeous environmental paeans by Childish Gambino, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell
by Alexis Petridis.
— Guardian: Soundtrack to Cop26

The 20 Greatest - from different decades and diverse genres.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/28/the-greatest-songs-about-the-climate-crisis-ranked

Except them kids... — Olivier5

And musicians and anyone paying careful attention...or suffering NOW the destruction of their world. *

The Concerned. The Past, Present and Future challenges ahead.

As Cop26 opens in Glasgow, we provide the soundtrack, ranging from Gojira’s metal fury to gorgeous environmental paeans by Childish Gambino, Neil Young and Joni Mitchell
by Alexis Petridis. — Guardian: Soundtrack to Cop26

The 20 Greatest - from different decades and diverse genres.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/oct/28/the-greatest-songs-about-the-climate-crisis-ranked
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We can’t live like this’: climate shocks rain down on Honduras’s poorest.

Winter Amaya, 37, with his wife Luisa Mendoza, 31, in the makeshift home they share with their three children, after their home in another part of Chapagua was swept away by the River Aguán during Hurricane Eta. Photograph: Daniele Volpe/The Guardian

Rural communities like Chapagua that have done least to stoke the climate crisis barely have time to recover from one disaster before another hits...

It’s not just that the climate is increasingly chaotic. In recent years a wave of environmentally destructive megaprojects – including dams, tourist resorts, mines and African palm plantations – has exacerbated the situation, leading to worse flooding and water shortages.

Around 2008, African palm magnates redirected the mighty Aguán river to help irrigate their plantations. Every year, as it settled into its new course, rains and landslides shifted it further, leaving some communities dangerously close to the river while others were left without water.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/28/honduras-climate-crisis-floods-hurricanes-poor-community

Lesley Duncan - Earth Mother (1972) (Full Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=av0q5ommPpw

For her second solo LP, Lesley Duncan (1943 – 2010), is surrounded by great musicians including Andy Bown (Herd, Status Quo), and a chamber-pop arrangement, which is Jimmy Horowitz's specialty, realized by the violinist Jack Rothstein (Cat Stevens). The music coupled with her strong voice results in a blend of soft rock and contemporary folk.
Besides her own solo career, she was a successful backing vocalist, and she figures on many classic records (Scott Walker, Dusty Springfield, Ringo Starr, Alan Parsons, Elton John, Pink Floyd...)

(We don't own anything. Will remove on request)

TRACKLIST & CUES:
A1 - Times 0:00
A2 - Queen to Your King 4:08
A3 - Love Will Never Lose You 7:57
A4 - Thunder 11:08
A5 - God Is Real (In My Soul) 14:56
A6 - Fortieth Floor 18:36
B1 - Old Friends 23:32
B2 - Sorry Living 28:07
B3 - If It's All the Same to You 32:15
B4 - Earth Mother 35:50
B5 - By and Bye 42:44

Well, they do have anxieties about these issues, rightly so, and our inaction fuels these anxieties. — Olivier5

Exactly. Growing anxieties about a whole host of problems...for us all.
It's almost like nobody cares.

Following yesterday's Budget, this cartoon:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/oct/27/martin-rowson-on-rishi-sunaks-age-of-optimism-budget-cartoon

Excellent BTL comments. This one a stand-out:

Wednesday’s budget took a flagrant sideswipe at Cop26. No, more than that, it poked it in the eye.

To not specifically address Climate Change, a soon-to-be-bigger threat to life than the pandemic.

To reduce the cost of internal flights, while doing nothing to make the much cleaner rail travel less expensive or more viable.

To fail to substantially increase the cost of international air travel, with a tax in rease that will barely be noticed by those who can afford to fly far.

We could undoubtedly have raised significant sums by getting tougher with fines on serial polluters. There could have been a spectrum of measures that both raised revenue to address future climate resilience while penalising offending businesses that take short cuts, pollute or mislead.

Opportunity lost.

This was undoubtedly a political act, perhaps a show of defiance to Boris Johnson, perhaps a nod to the Net Zero Scrutiny Group, but however you look at it, coming moments before Britain once more attempts to appear Global in hosting a Cop with great achievements, this budget totally undermines Britain’s credibility on Climate together with any remaining authority on green issues we may otherwise have had. — Guardian: Cartoon and Comment re Shit Budget

Well said by 'WhatEnlightenMeant' :sparkle:

From climate crisis to anti-racism, more and more corporations are taking a stand. But if it’s only done because it’s good for business, the fires will keep on burning
by Carl Rhodes

...15 March 2019 marked the day that 1.4 million children turned out at locations around the world, on “strike” from school in support of action against the climate crisis.

In Australia, the strikes were especially targeted at the government’s dismal record of inaction, with many politicians being climate-change deniers. The Australian prime minister, Scott Morrison, was vocal in his criticism of the strikes. He wanted students to stay in school instead of engaging in democratic protest.

His public statement said: “I want children growing up in Australia to feel positive about their future, and I think it is important we give them that confidence that they will not only have a wonderful country and pristine environment to live in, that they will also have an economy to live in as well.I don’t want our children to have anxieties about these issues.”...
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...It is true that at their most benign, corporate gestures in support of progressive causes are simply marketing initiatives to take advantage of changing public sentiments. At its most dangerous, however, we are witnessing corporations muscling in to take over political power that was once the exclusive domain of the state – not just by lobbying government and influencing policy, but by directly funding political initiatives and engaging with citizens on matters of public concern.

Corporations are not just trying to influence politics, they appear to be trying to take the place of politicians. Either way, the self-interest of the corporation remains paramount.
— Guardian: Useless gestures from Corporate Social Responsibility

So, will it take more strikes, what kind ?
Pepsi ads of children singing... or suffocating?

Thinking of Cop26:
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/comment/613335

LESLEY DUNCAN | SING CHILDREN SING | Charity Single 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4KRukPmfhU

Though you feel at times you just can't win
Sing, sing children, sing
That you give is known, so don't give in
Sing, sing children, sing

[Chorus 1]
Sing of the true way, sing of the time
Show them the new way, let your light shine

[Verse 2]
He who lights the fire, must surely burn
Turn, turn children, turn
From the ones who see, but will not learn
Turn, turn children, turn

[Chorus 2]
Turn from the darkness, turn all the way
Look for the sunshine – then don't turn away

[Verse 3]
For everyone who doesn't stand, must fall
Call, call children, call
And he who finds himself, then finds us all
Call, call children, call

[Chorus 3]
Call to the broken, call to the hate
Lеt the word be spoken, bеfore it's too late

[Outro]
(Sing, sing...)
(Sing, sing...) well, you know you've got to keep on singing
(Sing, sing...) sing, my children, keep on singing
(Sing, sing...) think of all the sunshine you'll be bringing
(Turn, turn...) well, you know you've got to keep on turning
(Turn, turn...) there's a lot, we got to keep on learning
(Turn, turn...) turn, turn, turn
(Turn, turn...) learn, learn, learn
(Sing, sing...) mhm...
(Sing, sing...) yeah, you know you've got to keep on singing
(Sing, sing...) sing, sing, sing
(Sing, sing...) sing, sing, sing...

Children tackling the environment brick by brick in 10 steps ? Who will listen ?

Lego issues Cop26 handbook by children on how to tackle climate crisis
Toymaker’s instructions for a better world target policy chiefs ahead of global climate summit

Nearly half of the children told researchers they thought about the environment once a week, while one in 10 thought about it every day. Global heating was their No 1 concern.

Lego is touting it as its most ambitious build to date, but rather than many pages of instructions, the toymaker’s latest handbook offers only 10 steps.

The booklet is not for a physical model, however. Instead it offers “building instructions for a better world” ahead of the crucial Cop26 climate talks that start in Glasgow this Sunday.

The “10 requests” of policymakers are based on research and workshops conducted with more than 6,000 children aged eight to 18 from around the world.
Mocked up like a Lego instruction booklet, the guide distils children’s views into a to-do list that will be handed out to delegates at Cop26.
— Guardian: Cop26 Handbook by Children

• Reduce pollution and waste.
• Increase the focus on protecting nature.
• Change laws and regulations around sustainability.
• Stop ignoring the problem: do more.
• Educate people of all ages.
• Introduce programmes to reduce emissions.
• Cooperate internationally to share knowledge and solutions.
• Leaders, change your own behaviour and set examples.
• Invest more in protecting the environment.
• Help people and future generations.

Easier said than done...
but hope the delegates at least listen to the voice and concerns of children :hearts:

LESLEY DUNCAN | SING CHILDREN SING | Charity Single 1979
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4KRukPmfhU

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Prego, Hamity. — Shawn

:smile: You do know how to inspire.
Been looking at why I shouldn't eat pigs.
Who knows where this might lead... :scream:

Before I go.
I'd like to thank @Shawn for starting this worthwhile discussion; much appreciated.
Also, I apologise if anything I wrote or my 'tone' caused offence to anyone; it wasn't meant.

Anyway, I tried something new in Stoic Week.
Didn't do it right. Resulted in a bit too much 'calm and peace'.
NB - Should never lie down in bed when attempting meditation. Unless you wanna :yawn:

Friday Meditation - Bonus audio Donald Robertson View from Above

Love :heart:
Peace :sparkle:
Fun :party:

COP26 is upcoming, in Glasgow...deserves its own thread, in conjunction with the reconciliation bill. — Xtrix

Glad you started a separate thread on Cop26.
https://thephilosophyforum.com/discussion/12028/cop26-in-glasgow-poll

As we all know (I hope), there is a huge conference coming up in Glasgow starting October 31st. This is the most important climate conference since Paris in 2015.
— Xtrix

Unfortunately, not all of us do know.

Here's a go-to guide to see you through COP26, and get you up to speed on what it’s all about and why it’s so important.

https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/cop26-explained/

As we all know (I hope), there is a huge conference coming up in Glasgow starting October 31st. This is the most important climate conference since Paris in 2015. — Xtrix

Not all of us do know.

A go-to guide to see you through COP26, and get you up to speed on what it’s all about and why it’s so important.

https://www.climatecouncil.org.au/resources/cop26-explained/

Interested in where we stand on the Forum. (By "concrete," below, I mean commitments that align with what scientists are recommending -- and that are binding.) — Xtrix

Before voting, do we have all the information about binding scientific recommendations ?

Will anything concrete come out of these talks? — Xtrix

There has always been a bit of a gap between talking and acting.
Don't have to look far in the UK for that. Think Tory Shit Flow... :rage:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/26/downing-street-to-oppose-raw-sewage-amendment-in-stand-off-with-lords

However, if lack of political will/action continues...then at least we have become more aware.
Differences can be made, if there's a will, there's a way. Or so they say....

Poorer countries spend five times more on debt than climate crisis – report
Charity says lower income countries handing over billions of dollars in debt is impeding their ability to tackle crisis.

Heidi Chow, executive director of Jubilee Debt Campaign, said lower income countries will be raising the impact of debt on their ability to tackle climate change at Cop26 meeting in Glasgow this weekend.

“Lower income countries are handing over billions of dollars in debt repayments to rich countries, banks and international financial institutions at a time when resources are desperately needed to fight the climate crisis,” she said.

“In Glasgow, wealthy polluting nations need to stop shirking their responsibilities and provide climate finance through grants, as well as cancel debts.”

Over the last 20 years international bodies including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have encouraged developing world countries to fund development projects using bank loans and bonds.

Borrowers expected interest rates to fall over time as they became trusted to make regular repayments. But low income countries still regularly pay more than 10% interest on loans compared to an average 1.5 to 2.5% paid by rich countries.

During the pandemic, the IMF has provided insurance to lower a proportion of the debt interest paid by low income countries, though the scheme does not cover funds owed to China. — Guardian: Climate Crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2021/oct/27/poorer-countries-spend-five-times-more-on-debt-than-climate-crisis-report