It Is Better to Look Good Than to Feel Good

When it comes to caring about global warming and your carbon footprint, the Europeans have proven that they are way more interested in looking like they care than in actually acting as though the planet's future depended on their green choices:

The left leaning Guardian newspaper in Britain let the cat out of the bag yesterday, reporting that while the EU’s emission of CO2 declined by 17% between 1990 and 2010, this apparent progress was bogus. If you add up the CO2 released by the goods and services Europeans consumed, as opposed to the CO2 thrown off by the goods and services they produced, the EU was responsible for 40% more CO2 in 2010 than in 1990. The EU, as the Guardian puts it, has been outsourcing pollution — and jobs — rather than cutting back on greenhouse gasses.

What a shock.