So from their point of view, asking rich nations to peak their emissions within a few years and halve them within five isn't unreasonable - especially, as another portion of the text says, that the problem of greenhouse warming has been on the radar for so long that rich countries could have peaked their emissions during the 1990s if they had wanted to.
Yet it is this very palpability within a landscape that makes many people believe that the Parthenon sculptures should be viewed, not in the grey light of their London vault, but within direct view of the location for which they were created.
They could remain ideologically pure by bringing down their own government and so risk empowering the Left, or they could recognize that governance is the art of compromise, keep a stiff upper lip and work from within the government to mitigate the strategic damage that in theirview Shamir and Netanyahu caused by bowing to American pressure.