NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS. Let's move along now.

In the end, protests won't solve what ails environmentalism. All over the world, the environmental agenda is in retreat.

Carbon caps have had little impact on emissions. The Kyoto framework has long since been abandoned. Renewables mandates have proved costly as innovation policy and ineffectual as climate policy.

In this sense, the turn toward Keystone and now divestment mark not the beginnings of a new climate movement but the death rattle of the old one.

Maybe there's hope for a restoration of common sense and realism in the environmental movement after all.

Nah.