Bill Clinton: 'The world's on fire,' but teamwork can help
Source: AP
By GLENN GAMBOA
NEW YORK (AP) Former President Bill Clinton is calling on governments, businesses, philanthropies and other prominent institutions to draw together and help a world that is on fire as he reconvenes the Clinton Global Initiative, the meeting of international leaders, for the first time since 2016.
Somebody needs to show up and make something good happen, he said during the conferences opening public session Monday. Thats what were trying to do.
Interest in the two-day meeting has been so intense that the Clinton Foundation had to turn away more than 1,000 potential attendees. It is convening a spectrum of luminaries, including Jordans Queen Rania Al Abdullah, Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley, BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai and actor and water access activist Matt Damon.
Clinton, president of the United States from 1993 to 2001, said he has been amazed by the massive response.
Former President Bill Clinton speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative, Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Nikhinson)
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|When you go out in the street
So many hassles with the heat
No one there can fill your desire
Cops out with the megaphones
Telling people stay inside their home
Man, can't they see the world's on fire