With a president committed to fighting cli-rnmate change and a new Congress inclined to go along, the prospects for greenhouse gas emissions abatement legislation are bright. That's good news. The Bush and Clinton administrations' intransigence on this issue set back U.S. action by at least a decade. But it should not obscure the reality that one obstacle to a successful effort in slowing global warming-the cooperation of the rapidly developing economies-is truly daunting. Indeed, failure to acknowledge the difficulty of herding this particular pride of cats in the right direction could cost us another lost decade.
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