California and Emissions Reductions

California has some of the most ambitious emissions-reductions goals in the country, and it’s routinely exceeding them; in fact, we hit our 2020 numbers in 2016.  

Yet, at a national level, the U.S. is an environmental disgrace, but that’s not stopping huge parts of it from doing the right thing; state and local governments, as well as a great deal of the private sector is doing an excellent job at taking care of the Mother Earth.

Is this coming at the expense of a thriving economy?  Hardly.  If it were a country, California would be the world’s 5th largest.

It all goes back to the central theme of what we’re about here at 2GreenEnergy, and, in particular, Bullish on Renewable Energy: our civilization is replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy on the basis of pure market economics alone; a population of environmentalists and a progressive national energy policy would help, but they’re really not required.

More generally, cleantech is the ultimate win-win; it preserves the quality of the planet we call home, while paying for itself and building the jobs base at the same time.