Summit With a Purpose
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on September 24th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Summit With a Purpose
Eugene Robinson, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — We are taking a huge gamble with the world’s future. Individual nations — and citizens — must choose to do the right thing to reduce carbon emissions and limit climate change, even if it means paying an economic cost. Counting on altruism is risky. But it just might work. More than 100 world leaders will assemble Tuesday at the United Nations to discuss what they are already doing, and further steps they might take, to address what majorities in many developed nations see as the gravest and most urgent problem facing the planet. No concrete action will be taken. President…