At the end of 2007, the Bali debate was everywhere, but one easy place to dip into it was via the three articles on Bali that EcoEquity’s Director Tom Athanasiou wrote for Gristmill: Rational expectations, Elephants in the room, and Where do we go from here? The third of these, in particular, raises the key question, well expressed in the old quip about the optimist, who thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist, who fears that this may well be the case.