Campaigners from 20 countries converge on Copenhagen to demand
climate justice. (Friends of the Earth International) Do you
keep your promises? Well, so do I. But nations are notoriously
bad at it. Hitler said in the Munich Agreement that he'd be
content with Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland, and the Native
Americans signed 370 treaties with the U.S. government between
1778 and 1871, most of which whites broke. Despite the dismal
history, however, the international community has just put a
host of greenhouse reduction efforts on the table. And according
to Andrew Light, a senior fellow at the Center for American
Progress (CAP) now in Copenhagen, if the 17 largest economies
"commit to all of the policies for carbon-pollution reduction
they have on the table now, the world will have reached 65% of
the emissions reductions required by 2020 to stop human-caused
temperature increase at two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial
levels." I know that sounds kind of technical, but it means we
could possibly, maybe avoid th