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This General Assembly gathering is, however, a little different in that it is focusing on global climate change and serving as a, well, warmer upper, for a later gathering in Copenhagen. Added to the U.N. event we have the Clinton Global Initiative gathering, also in New York, and the G-20 summit in Pittsburgh at week’s end.
Is it too much for people to expect only positive developments from all these gatherings? Probably.
But they remain a necessity because if there is one thing that will for certain not do our troubled world any good at all it is being isolated from one another, like so many ostriches with heads stuck in the sand, or, in a more current context, rising waters.