skipping to the end...

Overcoming climate change will take a triumph of optimism over pessimism, of vision over short-sightedness, of what Abraham Lincoln called "the better angels of our nature".

It is in that spirit that 56 newspapers from around the world have united behind this editorial.

Either none of them got the email that it was all a hoax, or they're putting out this huge, coordinated piece of propaganda because they're all in on it, too.

If we, with such different national and political perspectives, can agree on what must be done then surely our leaders can too.

(Except for those 'leaders' who are led around by the pockets of the leaders of the fossil fuels industry who would rather not cede to diversified and decentralized interests those profitable leadership positions that are so influential to the global economy.)

The politicians in Copenhagen have the power to shape history's judgment on this generation: one that saw a challenge and rose to it, or one so stupid that we saw calamity coming but did nothing to avert it. We implore them to make the right choice.

'Fourteen days to seal history's judgment on this generation'