The United States Needs to Lead the World in the Cleantech Revolution

Here we are, coming up on 12 years since the launch of 2GreenEnergy, and we’re finally starting to see things happen that we predicted “way back when.”

In particular, I wish I had a dollar for every time I made the point that Joe Biden is making here, i.e., that cleantech is destined to be the definitive industry in the 21st Century, and that a failure on the part of the United States to lead the world in this revolution will hasten the nation’s decline into irrelevance on the global stage.

I sympathize with the progressives in Congress who have been continually frustrated by the fierce opposition, funded by the fossil fuel giants.  Obama himself told a relatively small group of journalists shortly before he left office, “You’ll never know how hard I tried to push our country forward with respect to decarbonization.  Though I made a few strides forward, I failed to achieve even a fraction of what I set out to do.”

Having said all this, perhaps things are moving. “Build Back Better” will be a huge shot in the arm.