After doing a bit of digging through stories on the Chicago Tribune website, I found an article that caught my eye.  The article discussed what an international agreement regarding environmental impacts in developing countries and America’s isolation in diplomatic terms.  The agreement was reached in Bali, Indonesia.  The agreement was made with its emphasis on environmental responsibility on the parts of emerging economic nations.  The biggest impact on economy will be on China and India, while countries that have had rainforests cut down like Brazil were promised help from international organizations and other countries to keep their rainforests alive.  The agreement also served to help get the United States out of isolation in diplomatic negotiations, especially with regards to the environment, though the U.S. were were forced to agree with the rest of the world that these developing countries would recieve compensation for cutting greenhouse gas emissions.  The U.S. also agreed to be part of the effort to cut greenhouse gas emisssions in half by the year 2050.  The Bush administration did, however, avoid comitting to other short term objectives set forth in the talks which the administration believes would be extremely damaging to the economy.  The negotiations were full of emotional arguments from many different sides and inclued the UN climate chief leaving the negotiating room in tears, the president of Indonesia rushing to the negotiations to try and break a deadlock, and the U.S. delegation agreeing in a last minute surprise to take part in a program that would support the exchange of technology to poorer countries to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.  The agreement made Saturday is the first step in a long line of talks that aim to make many new comprimises regarding environmental protection around the world.  This agreement gives me hope that there is still a chance for the world to change its ways and come into harmony with the planet instead of tryign to dominate mother nature in every way, shape, and form, which I believe man’s ego has tried to do and obviously failed.  It is only with drastic change that man can hope to survive, I just hope that the mistake hasn’t been realized too late and that we havn’t done any irreversible to this planet, because it would be a real pity if we couldn’t make sure that this planet stays as beautiful as it is today.