G8 is going to fail. I wonder, was there ever any hope that these people would come to any decisions that might change the world in the singlest iota?

Bush says "America comes first", Jaques Chirac is trying to embarrass Blair and push the UK and US apart, the US senate is prepared to block anything anyway.

It's all going to go titsup because of political posturing and personal prejudice.

But then, when wasn't it?

But then you see what's actually happening in Africa, the millions of people with no future, no life, the thirty thousand every day who, as I said before, have nothing left to do but lie down in the dirt and die. you go to Indonesia and see the ravaged land, mudslide after mudslide because they cut all the trees down. You look at the sea levels rising, the centre of America turning into desert - OK, bigger desert. It's not an emotive tool being used by manipulative pressure groups to get their agenda on the news - OK, well maybe it is, but still, these people are real, these things are happening.

The strength of the African people is terrifying. For hundreds of years they've been exploited, killed, oppressed, enslaved, emasculated, raped by us westerners, but still they carry on. Africa is a vast, beautiful, churning charnel house of historical, present and future death and destruction, but still they carry on. We've robbed them of any future but still they carry on.

I'm shamed. I'm humbled. I wish these people could be. The world is in their hands and they're raping it for personal gain. They're the enemy. Africa is the victim and we're all to blame.

Everyone in America these days is talking about patriotism, how to be a Good American. Newsflash: You are not the centre of the universe. Your world relies on the big fish looking after the little fish. Be a good American by forgetting you live in America and remembering you live on a fragile world which needs your help, no matter what the cost.