Europeans have been lying to the world – green this, green that, save the planet, prevent heat from CO2, we’re following the Paris Accords, on, on and on, etc, etc. and etc. The Europeans are hardly advanced in preventing the heating of the planet.

The News of 2022 supports this view. The Europeans don’t seem to have done, do-do. Nuclear power supposedly produces clean electricity, no harm except the rosy glow of radiation, and deconstruction costs of very hazardous waste. Natural gas is supposed to save Europe. Burning it produces far fewer emissions than almost every other abundant fossil fuel. People disapprove of natural gas because the means of attaining it, and it still produces too many emissions.

So the energy-hungry Europeans are supposed to use natural gas from Russia, unacceptable supplier, but now might not meet their pollution, CO2/climate goals. The Europeans are slackers while proclaiming their virtues. Their energy sources should be more secure and more available, if the Europeans had followed their-own advice and met their promises: The so-called energy crisis in Europe over the upcoming winter would be less alarming.

California is on a hurried path to a green economy, but the Europeans provide a poor example. California will not build a bullet train soon of any functionally. That train is scheduled to make all the stops the Amtrak currently makes. As time goes on it, seems Americans will rely on petroleum products for most energy until 2050. e.g. there will not be sufficient recharging stations on highways; there will be inadequate electrical storage facilities in remote locations. In California much of the electric grid needs replacing. Current solar panels are not as efficient as advertised. Reinvestments in solar panels bought today will have to be made again in ten or fifteen years. And, unfortunately in the United States and other countries, going green means crime – criminals attack and dissemble green equipment and sell the materials individually.

As the Europeans have proven, expecting the world to be green soon will be delayed. Europeans will use Russian natural gas when it becomes acceptable; apparently the cost of going green prevents people of choosing green. And next the Chinese. They don’t give a hoot about going green. They burn all fossil fuels and have already poisoned their land so thoroughly that China is unable to feed itself.