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There’s a sign hanging at Muir Woods, a gorgeous redwood forest not far from San Francisco, which reads:
In 1945, delegates from all over the world met in San Francisco to establish the United Nations. On May 19, they traveled to Muir Woods to honor the memory of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, whose death one month earlier had thrown the world into mourning Organizers of the event hoped that the profound beauty and serenity of Muir Woods would inspire the delegates to pursue the president’s program for world peace as they met to establish the United Nations.
The inspiration for the meeting came from Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes,who said that by holding a session in the woods:Not only would this focus attention upon the nation’s interest in preserving these mighty trees for posterity, but in such a ‘temple of peace’ the delegates would gain a perspective and sense of time that could be obtained nowhere better than in such a forest.
You see where I’m going with this
Imagine the following scenario for the climate negotiations:
Heads of State gather in a beautiful and peaceful setting; the kind of place which serves to remind them what we stand to lose if climate change spirals out of control.
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