We are almost a quarter-way through the 21st century – time enough to check on how we are doing. Were we justified in striding into the New Millennium, as I did, with exuberance and optimism? But Y2K did not happen, and we all breathed a collective sigh of relief that the doomsayers were wrong. And so it seemed as we trained ourselves to use “20” instead of “19″ when recording dates. We breasted the new century confident the recently adopted Kyoto Protocol was going to see developed nations comply with mandatory targets to reduce greenhouse emissions.

Source: Libya Today January 14, 2022 18:01 UTC