While the snow melts in our 51-degree back yard, I'm catching up with some newspaper reading.

This is a great article, I think.
"On geopolitical issues like climate change, India and China are encouraged to balance their internal duties as developing countries with their external responsibilities as emerging giants. They are told to short-circuit history, to avoid tactics for growth that the West now sees as errors, to assume obligations that rich lands took on only when they became much wealthier."