A NEW DIRECTION FOR ENGLANDADAMUKA ROSE TO ADDRESS THEM. Despite his years and position, he was filled with emotion. Who, he said to himself as approached the lectern, would have imagined that we islanders would dominate the world simply by living with nature instead of trying to defeat it at every corner?
“A long time ago,“ he began, “there was a beautiful uninhabited island in our ocean with broad plains that rose gently up into tall hills, crowned by a central mountain; endless streams of crystal clear water that was sweet to the taste flowed from its sides down onto the plains and into the sea. The plains and hills were covered in an amazing variety of trees and plants that gladdened the heart to see, with their soft green colors and blossoms of all colors, teeming with butterflies an
