| Global warming is an emergency, and "for emergency situations we need emergency action," UN's Ban Ki-Moon told the world in November 2007. Why, then, has climate policy moved in such a painfully slow manner? How can the impasse be resolved between what needs doing quickly, based on the science, and what seems a "reasonable" thing to do? In all these examples, we see reluctance to go beyond the bounds of perceived acceptabilit | 
 
  
 
			
			














