The European Union's push for a "post-industrial revolution".

The European Union's push for a "post-industrial revolution"--calling on its members to strive for a 20 percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and a 10 percent conversion to vehicle biofuels by 2020--is being met with derision by many U.S. car manufacturers. Chrysler's chief economist Van Jolissaint scathingly called EU leaders "quasi-hysterical Europeans" with "Chicken Little" attitudes toward global warming which he sees as "a far-off risk whose magnitude is uncertain."

Karen Ann Gajewski is a freelance editor and an editorial consultant to the Humanist.