Nice line from anon in Jay Rosen's comments for discussion of JAnthony's question to Julian Assange :

we'll see at COP16, international diplomacy - in the state it's in - is not going to help humanity transcend to where we need to be as an international community.

I hope it's not true. But I fear that it will be. There really is a question overhanging what good international diplomacy is doing at the moment.