Now, why the hell would we bother to do this?

This is basically why we would bother to do it.

All delegations should adhere to the compromise painstakingly reached in São Paulo.

It leaves their children paralyzed, and it drags their families deeper into poverty, because they're desperately searching and they're desperately spending the little bit of savings that they have, trying in vain to find a cure for their children.

These mounting perils, which threaten the stability of the fragile balance laboriously worked out in our South East Asian region, prompt me to request your advice and opinion with regard to the provisions of the Paris Agreements and the special responsibilities of the United Nations in their implementation and application.

As the Obama administration cracks heads and bends ears on Capitol Hill (with the help of a legion of AIPAC lobbyists) in the hope of winning Congressional approval for what must be the most anti climatic military strike in the history of the world, why would anyone bother debating political solutions?