Bargaining over climate change futile

Excuse me, which war are we fighting: The war against climate change, or a war over climate change?

We (by that I mean all the people in the world) will most likely have a war of the second sort. That is, if most conditions laid out by various countries - in the run-up to the UN climate change conference, slated for Dec 7-18, 2009, in Copenhagen - is any indication.

In such a war, the industrialized countries are unwilling to commit to any significant cutback on their emissions unless (as they demand) the larger developing economies, at the same time, are willing to pledge mandatory caps on their emissions.