I've recounted this story I think in this committee, too, about the first time I went to China and was seeing the pollution. I visited the steel mills the second time and just saw the pollution. When I came back home the Chinese came to visit and they said, we want to talk to you about your trip. I was one of the first ones in our party to go at that time, and I said, that's great. What do you want to talk about? They said, we want to talk about the environment. I thought that's wonderful. They said, no, we don't want to talk about our environment; we want to talk about your environment.
They talked about us reducing our carbon footprint. When I mentioned to them that they had a little bit of an issue there themselves, they said, that's just really recent. You guys have been doing this for 100 years, and we're just.... Then he told me the story, and reiterated those things about moving the society forward and how important that was.
How much of that is accepted by some of our national leaders?