To young people who attended the concert on Saturday, travelled up to Edinburgh for the anti-poverty march, or who are part of this week's J8 Summit, the issue is simple: thousands of people are dying and the developed world has to do something.
As 15-year-old Hannah Austin from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire says in this week's feature (see p14): "It doesn't matter where we live in the world, these things affect us all and things should be different."
Cynics will say the weekend's events amounted to little more than a collective outbreak of hand-wringing and naivety, which will soon be shattered when the G8 leaders sit down at Gleneagles and try to bury their differences in the hard bargaining that can really make a difference to world poverty.
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