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HEED THEE SHAKESPEARE, COP 26

HEED THEE SHAKESPEARE, COP 26

Hav­ing deliv­ered lines of brave words, glow­ing promis­es and sweep­ing com­mit­ments to cur­tail cli­mate change, the prin­ci­pal actors have left the stage of COP 26, the ‘last, best chance’ to save the world. Their resumés don’t bode well for the play’s cli­max, how­ev­er. We the audi­ence can only hope Shake­speare got it wrong when he wrote: “An over­flow of good con­verts to bad.”Read the rest