Metaphor meets reality: U.S. and China are clearing the air

History has no on-off buttons. Change is never instantaneous. But President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping’s recent accord on greenhouse gases may allow the world to start dialing down dangerous carbon emissions. Past experience shows this can be true. Similar trial-and-error diplomacy in the 1880s helped avert another […]



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