Irish rocker Bono has spoken out as he is upset for the world’s poor after the recent G8 world leader summit in Canada saying enough was not going to be done.
“The scale of the response does not match the scale of the problem. The message we’re trying to get to the politicians is don’t move in baby steps. Take the big leap forward. It’s cheaper to put the fires out before they happen and there are another 10 Afghanistans waiting to happen in Africa. I just though they’d have the imagination to take giant, giant leap here. There is a little bit more money going around but none of the vision we were hoping for.”

He went on. “It’s bewildering to me that we are not treating this as an emergency.”

He also said that if he was still speaking about the issue of AIDS in Africa next year that he has been nothing more than a tourist in someone else’s tragedies.

- ShowbizIreland.com

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