Mr. Trichet has recently led the call for measures to avert financial crises.
It is not enough to call for measures that stop suburbanization — the suburbs aren't going anywhere.
The voluntary guidelines, which were developed jointly with the State Energy Research and Development Authority, call for measures including alternative energy sources; minimizing parking spaces while providing bike and pedestrian access; and planting landscapes that require less water to maintain.
"There are particular moments in public affairs," Madison warned, "when the people, stimulated by some irregular passion, or some illicit advantage, or misled by the artful misrepresentations of interested men, may call for measures which they themselves will afterwards be the most ready to lament and condemn".
That was certainly my assumption in 2005 when, as U.N. secretary general, I urged the General Assembly to pass a resolution on Holocaust Remembrance, which included a call for "measures to mobilize civil society for Holocaust remembrance and education, in order to help to prevent future acts of genocide".
"The French government was right to call for measures to improve employment and development opportunities for Roma in their countries of origin, in this case Bulgaria and Romania," Mr. Soros wrote, urging a European plan, in particular, for early-childhood education for Roma children.
