Thus The Guardian today. “EU’s delegation at Lima talks says mandatory cuts should be set for all countries, but US wants countries to be free to set scale and pace of cuts,” explains the newspaper. As expected, everything is turning around the law in preparation for the Paris meeting next year. “The EU is of the mind that legally binding mitigation targets are the only way to provide the necessary long-term signal, the necessary confidence to the investors … and provide credibility in the low carbon transition worldwide,” said Elina Bardram, head of the European Union delegation at the conference. “What the United States is putting on the table is basically the Wild West,” said Asad Rehman of Friends of the Earth. And then he added: “Having a deregulated climate system, having countries just make any pledge they want is a recipe for disaster. What we need is science-based rigorous regulations, it’s the only way we are going to tackle this climate crisis.” All this would be funny if it were not so sad, it goes without saying. But the best one can do while the tragicomedy unfolds is to follow it with due care. Word by word, the human race is going to hell. Sorry, Paris.