NO - We Cannot

For over a decade, European Gutmenschen (people pretending to do good and talk at length about it) have been blaming the United States for not doing enough to fight climate change. Back then (under the Clinton administration) the Senate unanimously rejected any Kyoto-style agreement.

Now that the Obama administration is transitioning in and the ecological-industrial complex is preparing for a major overhaul of American politics, European politicians finally have to reveal how little they cared as well. With the exception of Germany, who shut down the East-German economy after re-unification, no country has actually reduced any emissions, some countries like Spain are up by more than 50% to the year 1990.

It is time to tell the truth now. No, we cannot reduce emissions in the European Union in the way we promised to do. And we will not in the foreseeable future. Even if we did it, our reduction would be made up by rising output of carbondioxid in China and India in a matter of weeks.

The European Union should join the United States, China and India in the Asia-Pacific Partnership on Clean Development to start investing in technologies that allow us to burn less fossil fuels.

For a century we let the people believe, Yes We Can, but now we have to admit: No, We Cannot.