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I’ve been trying not to say anything about Copenhagen. It’s cruel to make fun of so much hope betrayed. For three decades we’ve watched as one city after another has hosted these jamborees for politicians and assorted hangers-on. Geneva, Rio, Kyoto and half the other cities in the world capable of housing for a few days the tremendous circus of luggage and limos and fussy interns and security guards and banquets and chain link barricades and self congratulatory paeans to the impossible have had their hospitality insulted. And in the vanguard come the bespoke suited leaders, buffed and polished to within an inch of their lives. Leaders of nations, united nations, banks, oil cabals, international organizations of this and that ad infinitum.

And for nothing.

Thank goodness. Can you imagine the damage that might have been done to innovation had they passed some nonsense? We got away with that by the skin of our teeth.