With its high-pitched rhetoric, you would be forgiven for believing that the EU has now single-handedly taken the major step towards solving the problem. Barroso calls the agreement “historic,” Tony Blair extols its “groundbreaking, bold, ambitious targets,” and German Chancellor Angela Merkel even ventured that the promises “can avoid what could well be a human calamity.”
由于高谈阔论的蛊惑，你要是相信欧盟已经单方面决定朝着解决这个问题的方向迈出重要一步也是情有可原。巴罗佐称此协议为“具有历史意义的”，布莱尔则赞美它是“开创性的、雄心勃勃的目标”，德国总理默克尔甚至敢说这些承诺“能够避免人类灾难的发生。”