The fact is, this U.N. General Assembly was a Really Boring Meeting, kind of like preparing dinner by opening a can of steak. Sure, all the right ingredients were in there — the world's leaders, a deeply urgent slate of problems, a global forum to hash them out. What if, say, the world's leaders had been required — or even encouraged — to deliver their speeches live via satellite hookup? What if other leaders had been listening in real time? As the prerecorded speeches droned on, even the most interesting of leaders appeared kind of two-dimensional.

Source: Daily Sun September 30, 2020 15:56 UTC