The world today is more about cities than countries, and a place like Seoul has more in common with Singapore and Hong Kong than with smaller Korean cities." - AT Kearney, 2012 Global Cities Index and Emerging Cities Outlook
Obama stressed many of the challenges of the UN is confronting this week, from climate change to the Ebola epidemic, are collective in nature - not limited to any one country. Just as globalization brings the spread of new wealth and new opportunities, it's also created pathways for contagion and cross-border terror. Obama says that's produced a global unease, but rather than trying to insulate themselves, he says he and his fellow leaders have to act together. - Scott Horsley, NPR, Sept. 24, 2014