It is over. The crucial, two-week summit that will determine our planet's future climate has drawn to a close in Copenhagen, Denmark. Over 180 countries met, discussed, debated, argued and ultimately  finalized an agreement over the next step in climate policy. The resulting agreement is what most close environmental policy makers and observers are calling, brace yourselves... an utter failure. The scorecard does look bleak; the heaviest polluters will not make measurable changes in their emissions, and the fastest developing countries would not agree to either oversight or to clear emission controls. The countries that went into the summit objecting to meaningful progress seemed to have succeeded in blocking binding resolutions to limit the increase in amount of Greenhouse Gases that our disrupting our planet's climate. But where many are decrying this as a monumental failure, a second look at how the summit transpired may show the developing world's resilience helped save us from complete inaction.