greenification
so the us is one of the few countries that has made decent progress on reducing carbon emissions. despite not having signed international agreements. there are a few reasons for this. the first is, we're greedy bastards. that makes us competitive. so when a fad like being green comes along, we jump on it. research into new technologies has had this implied requirement that it's greener and cheaper than the status quo. industry has gotten greener as it's been adopted. go us. guess there's something to be said for being greedy bastards. but the hands down title for greatest greenifier goes to gwb. after 9/11 he said, go shopping. and people being stupid frightened morans who needed to follow a leader, did. and they did. and the banks kept loaning them money because the government told them to. and effectively promised to bail them out when the shits hit the fan. which it did. and they did. the other punch to the double whammy is the wars in the middle east. which spiked oil prices. and caused several trillion dollars to leave the us economy. plunged us into the greatest recession in a century. which cut back our consumption. which cut back our production. which cut back our emissions. gwb for president. sigh.