Copenhagen- To be or not to be?

All it seems is not well in the state of Denmark. 192 countries with competing interests getting together to come to an agreement on our planet's existential
future always had the makings of a Shakespearean tragedy. Unfortunately for the
audience the seriousness of the issues at hand has been lost on the characters that
waltz the world stage with the whole meeting descending into farce. The pantomime protagonists China and the USA are mainly to blame. The Chinese for their part
don't want any agreements to be validated by inspections and the Americans and Europeans don't want to recognize and pay for their historical ecological debt. After all it is the not the newly emerging countries but the US and Europe which have benefited the most from polluting the world.
In President (at least i showed up) Obama we have a leader who is shackled by the senate to effect any substantive change. If we want to reduce pollution we have to subsidize the poor countries in Africa and south America to keep the planet's lungs, the rain forests, away from corporate harm. However given that none of the communiques or agreements forged are legally binding all of this political theatre is meaningless particularly given the record of the richer countries on sticking to targets. Given this set of circumstances whatever self congratulatory draft agreement is read out by the prince of Denmark in a few hours time the ending for the world's poorest nations,one fears, will be as tragic as that in Hamlet.
Gordon Brown has cut somewhat a lonely and insignificant figure in Copenhagen. This is certainly one area where a lack of a United Europe policy damages all of us. His
failure to highlight the ridiculousness of the Tories green aspirations outside the framework of the European Union unfortunately has made him look weaker still.