A major UK study reports today on soaring levels of individual isolation and stress which I doubt if Christmas will ease. Cold and very wet here again today and no Christmas decorations up yet but greeting cards beginning to arrive and mincemeat to be made tomorrow.
Yes, so much happening. 56 newspapers from 45 countries shared a joint editorial today headed "Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation."
Can we hope that by the time Christmas arrives we will be thankful that at the Copenhagen Conference consensus was reached and some kind of commitment made that could really make a difference? That would be something to celebrate as well as encouragement to try a little harder ourselves to work for the future. It is hard to believe that it will be anything other than talk and posturing but those politicians are there because we demanded that they be so. There was even a hint this morning that the Obama administration may have found a way of escaping the straight jacket Congress has it in. I'd love to think Martin Luther King was right when he said - "Let us realise the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
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