Talk But Where Is The Action in Copenhagen?

China and India, emitting more green house gases than the US and the European Union, are trying to "talk the talk" in Copenhagen. But, ironically, both nations are on a consumption binge, emulating what the US has been doing for the past several decades.

It's going to be a little hard to curb green house gases if you're driving millions of Humvees or Cadillac Escalades. And, to the surprise of no one, China has essentially surpassed the United States as the world power, because of it's boundless economic growth. The box that China and to some degree India is in, is that to scale back this growth will be politically unsettling.

The question is, then, are the promises of reductions in emissions just talk?