b'| PRO PERTY | WHY IS OUR HOUSE ON FIRE, AND WHY AREWE EXPECTING OUR CHILDREN TO PUT OUT THE FLAMES?CLIMATEMATTERSA s Greta Thunbergencouragement.and the world leaders have moved stepped off the Malizia II,All of this is very overwhelmingon to other matters while Thunberg a racing yacht poweredand the ground is still shaking formaintains her steady course to raise by solar panels andme, Thunberg said to the press. It isawareness and incite action.underwater generatorinsane that a 16 year old should haveEarlier this year, the Extinction turbines, 78,000 fires were ragingto cross the Atlantic ocean to make aRebellion came to the attention of through the Amazon. These man- stand! many Londoners for the first time, made fires, silently sanctioned byMeanwhile Jair Bolsonaro, Presidentstaging a variety of street protests, a nod and wink from the Brazilianof Brazil, was beginning to feel somesit-ins and bridge blockades. On leadership, were busy burning thepressure from G7 world leadersthe whole the atmosphere was forests that create 20% of the earthswho, led by President Macron ofsurprisingly jovial and reminiscent oxygen. France, clubbed together to offerof hippy music festivals or anti-At the shore, the 16 year oldjust $20 million to help deal withnuclear protests of past decades, admitted to still having sea-legsthe emergency. An argument thenbut with Thunberg as a figurehead, and was a little unsure of herselfpersisted between these politiciansbringing a legion of children with as cameras jostled in front of heron whether Brazil should accept theher, an innocence has been added and the crowd shouted words ofoffer or not. So the fires continue,to this movement - and a legitimacy. ELECTIONThe public will finally getOr will they come out inpeople know it. If any leader SPECIAL their say, but for ten yearsforce behind the Tories andconnects with the real aspi-have returned a series ofsteer us sharply into a hard,rations of the general public weak governments. TheyNo Deal Brexit? it could well be a landslide.must eventually give clearThey couldnt surely voteBoth main parties will lose THATS IT.support for one direction.in another limping govern- votes and seats to rivals be-A GENERALWill they choose a new pathment without enough seatscause of their adjusted posi-ELECTIONtowards Labour (and/or theto decide anything again,tions on Brexit, but they can WILL SORTLiberals), cancelling Articlecould they? The result musteach expect to win others 22THE RIVER MAGAZINE|Winter 2016 emaining in Europe?be unequivocal and thefor the same reason. Neither IT OUT! 50 and r'