![]() It’s obvious now that the necessary degree of mobilization between and within nations may never occur, and the United States stands to be one of the most obdurate abstainers, all the way down to the local level. I suspected we’d procrastinate and push our triumph to the final hour, but it didn’t occur to me there might be no effective effort at all. For decades, movies promised this acme of international cooperation, an achievement that could belong to the whole of humanity. Global warming had the feel of an epic threat that all the planet’s populations would rally to oppose, like an alien invasion or a meteor on a collision course with Earth. ![]() I knew enough to understand that a Republican-led United States would never participate in the Something, but-child that I was-I imagined Europe would set an example for a later, Democrat-led US to emulate I imagined the rest of the world would unite behind a plan Americans would eventually adopt. ![]() WAY BACK IN 2001, when I was a teenager furious at Bush for withdrawing from the Kyoto treaty, I still believed Something Would Happen to mitigate climate change. ![]()
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