The Angel of Hope (Christine Lagarde)

Christine En Garde!

how apt a name is that?!

handsome as a house

and with a mind flowing like mercury

hopping from history

to years out yonder

like a spring lamb leaps

from tussock to tussock.

To not only dare speak the phrase environmental degradation in public

but to then to highlight our changing Demographics

and then Climate Change as just obstacles

Which of course they are

mere mounds to a species that has climbed Everest

and made machines to ride to the moon

and home

The foresight to see that that tipping point will soon be upon us

but that as a species

‘It is not too late to turn’

& to embark on that gigantic project

with its multitude of moving parts

pricing things right so that people pay for the damage they cause

& putting that money where it can fund the right future

and ridding ourselves soon of that strange current addiction

of funding those hugely that pollute now

Perhaps

 if she was able to catch Abbott’s ear

at the G20 summit

and clearly impressed him

-       there IS still hope for us all.