I thought that I read all sorts of grim predictions that if all the countries in the world didn't reach an agreement in 50 days or two weeks or something and FIX THIS MESS then the world was going to blow up. Or burn up. Or some other disaster.
Locusts. Plagues. Fire and Brimstone. Dogs and cats living together.
Indeed, "The most critical meeting of our time" or somesuch was the way it was referred to.
You mean they were wrong? Heaven forbid.