Interest groups all around are jockeying for newsprintand news reels touting their perspectives on the outcomes of the on United Nations Global Climate Change Conference. Three of the most important outcomes are getting the least amount of attention. First, the world’s nations have agreed unequivocally that the Earth’s climate is changing, that the pace and scale of these changes are being caused by human activity, and that the re-sults will likely be catastrophic for many of the world’s inhab-itants and natural ecosystems. They also agreed that future accords on climate …

By Glenn Scherer and David Lillard
When our economy tanked last year, politicians told us that our nation’s financial institutions were “too big to fail,” and the federal government immediately proceeded to bail out the banks. Now, as world leaders prepare for a critically important climate summit in Copenhagen, we need to ask: Is Earth too big to fail? And if the collapse of our planet’s life support systems is unacceptable to us, then how do we shatter the climate change policy logjam once and for all?
One answer is to stop …