Greener Than Some

Eight American states have signed a memorandum of understanding to secede from the Union by intefering in the automobile market. The ultimate intention of the heresy is to get more than three million zero-emission vehicles onto the roads in the next twelve years. "This agreement is a major step forward to reducing the emissions that are causing our climate to change and unleashing the extreme weather that we are experiencing with increased frequency," proclaimed the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, in open defiance of Republican values, the Founding Fathers and Britain's badger-busting environment secretary. Presumably it is the prevalence of such attitudes, as well as America's ongoing hegemonic shrinkage, which has caused the greenest government ever to start fluttering those flirtatious Osborne chins at the Heathen Chinee.