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Prince of the world

Prince Charles has won an environmental citizen award in the US (from the BBC), presented by none other than Al Gore (Still haven’t seen An Inconvenient Truth). Although he has been critised by environmentalists for flying over to the US. I know that it’s not the best way to travel but surely a guy with as much on as the Prince of Wales doesn’t have time for sailing across the oceans? I’m sure if they had decided to travel by sea everyone would have been up in arms about the costs so how can he win? Now normally I’m not much of a royalist but surely this is a good thing? Someone from our tiny country being recognised for his work in trying to save the environment? Especially at a time when the US administration could be doing a lot more to combat climate change.

This kind of goes with something that I thought about when I was listening to John Reid on the radio this morning, I know that he’s a politician but at least he tells people what’s wrong and how he’s trying to fix it. All that people can focus on is a couple of things that haven’t quite gone to plan. Why are we, the British, so institutionally pessimistic? A american with something to do with the war in Iraq was also on talking about the ‘new strategy’ and how we’d be able to measure it’s success by the summer with some guidelines earlier than that, before John Humpreys jumps in with “Or failure”. The measurement of success implies a measure of failure too so why are we so eager to jump on failure?

Perhaps we’d be better off focusing on the things that have gone right and trying to learn from those rather than focusing on what’s gone wrong and trying to learn lesson from them?

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