The “green” path prescribed by the climate industrial complex is economically destructive and operationally impossible – even with massive government subsidies, Vijay Jayaraj writes.
In 2025, energy giants looked at the cliff’s edge and refused to jump; they are U-turning on “green” energy initiatives.
Will governments recognise what corporations have made clear, that “green” energy is an unscientific fantasy, and return to hydrocarbon fuels? Or will they continue to increase subsidies and regulations to force the unsustainable “green transition”?
The world’s governments are diverging, or bifurcating. Some governments are continuing an economic decline under mandates and taxes, while others are pursuing prosperity with fuels and technologies that work.
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Energy Transition Meltdown Could Mean Global Bifurcation
By Vijay Jayaraj, as published by CO2 Coalition on 26 December 2025. It was republished on the CO2 Coalition’s Substack page on 7 January 2026.
History will likely remember 2025 as the year energy corporatists finally stopped pretending there is a climate crisis. For a decade, a bizarre theatre of the absurd played out as titans of the oil and gas industry apologised for their core business while pledging allegiance to a “green transition” that existed mostly in the imaginations of Western bureaucrats. But the curtain has seemingly fallen.
ExxonMobil, one of the world’s largest energy producers, has slashed $10 billion from its low-carbon investment commitments through 2030. Simultaneously, the company announced that it expects $25 billion in earnings growth from 2024 to 2030 to be powered primarily by increases in oil and gas production, which will push daily output to 5.5 million barrels of oil equivalent by the end of the decade.
This is not a company abandoning climate responsibility but rather at last recognising what has long been obvious: The path prescribed by the climate industrial complex is economically destructive and operationally impossible – even with massive government subsidies.
For years, the global energy strategy has been surreal. Companies that built the modern world on the back of energy-dense hydrocarbons indulged those celebrating the arrival of wind turbines and solar panels to power civilisation. But reality, stubborn and unforgiving, has interrupted the psychedelic revelry.
ExxonMobil’s low-carbon investments will be paced to policy support and customer demand, says the company. That is corporate speak meaning that spending on green projects is paused unless the government – using our tax dollars – subsidises the risk or until a market exists.
Megaprojects, once heralded as the future, are now in line for deferral. Why? Because without taxpayer handouts, the economics of trying to bury underground a plant food like carbon dioxide simply do not work – and defy common sense.
The energy sector is pivoting from a strategy of “grow clean at all costs” to “returns first, transition last.” “Green” projects are being relegated to a secondary capital bucket – a token for good public relations instead of a core activity.
Europe’s Shell and Aker BP and Canada’s Enbridge have withdrawn from the Science Based Targets initiative to establish “science-based emissions reductions.” This was a retreat from what is described as a “credible, science-based net-zero framework” because there was neither credibility nor science. It was a political suicide pact. The energy giants looked at the cliff’s edge and refused to jump.
British multinational BP, having abandoned its promise to go “Beyond Petroleum,” has raised its oil and gas spending and softened its renewable targets.
ENEOS Holdings, a Japanese refiner, has discarded hydrogen production targets, with CEO Tomohide Miyata explaining that “the shift toward a carbon-neutral society appears to be slowing.”
These U-turns represent a renaissance in policy realism. Energy needs do not disappear because politicians make speeches at climate summits or corporations allocate funds to ESG programmes or governments attempt to control consumption and choices of appliances and automobiles.
Second thoughts about an inevitably doomed “green” transition is a victory for the single mother in the US trying to budget for winter heating and for the small business owner in the UK whose margins are crushed by one of the highest commercial electricity rates in the world. And for the billions of people in developing nations, this pivot could be salvation from generational poverty.
The question now is whether governments will recognise what corporations have made clear: that the energy transition was a fantasy infused with scientific language and draped in moralistic gingerbread. Or will they continue to increase subsidies and regulations?
Very likely, there will be a bifurcation: on the one hand, western bureaucracies, particularly in Europe, continuing an economic decline under mandates and taxes, and on the other, pragmatic governments, many of them in Asia, pursuing prosperity with fuels and technologies that work.
This commentary was first published by Daily Caller on 25 December 2025.
About the Author
Vijay Jayaraj is a Science and Research Associate at the CO2 Coalition, Fairfax, Virginia. He holds an MS in environmental sciences from the University of East Anglia and a postgraduate degree in energy management from Robert Gordon University, both in the UK, and a bachelor’s in engineering from Anna University, India.
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How come for an ordinary Joe like me it was blindingly obvious that the so called climate crisis and green revolution were Soros-style nonsense designed only to exercise control, yet massive conglomerates and administrations everywhere fell for it?
Just so, Bruce, it’s a source of amazement that the Boards of so many great companies were so purblind in face of the obvious.
The only sensible excuse for following Ed Miliband was to see how the dope would cope with his next bacon buttie.
I agree with your sentiment; nevertheless, this is all part of the PLAN-those at the very top of the “massive conglomerates and administrations” know the PLAN, be assured of that!
All part of the drive to create a world government.
Another example of following the gold standard science, where the science is guided gold and has left the followers so far behind science ,as to end up following founding myths.
Finally, someone who has common sense has said what has needed to be said for a very long time. All of the climate nut cases forgot high school biology classes and are lost in the Forrest and can’t see the trees and the grass.
Those conglomerates NOT fell for it, they are part of the selected (not elected), paid to say “YES” & paid to make sure the narratives are complied with the PLAN.
This is already lame news. Nothing new under the sun. The only problems here is, too many sheeples still suck (tit) it.
However, no need to worry. Soon, many people are drop dead because of heart attack & stroke. The time are ticking for those who took the vaxx.
depends if they flick the kill switch, 5G towers with adjusted frequencies to activate technology in vaxx, untill that happens, humanity has got a hope, and if they do and u r the lucky ones to survive, u have to ask urself this question. Im left alive in hands of psychoterrorists, how am I going to survive this now ? Coz they will come after everyone who survived to finish the job off. Unity and awakening is the only chance we have. They weaponized transportation infrastructure all over the world, so it cant be that far away…..just look at those new dew ameras everywhere, thats the kill switch
True, lucky ones is not a victory to brag anymore because ‘they’ have plan A, B C and so on…
Not much a choice do we have, huh?!
But, hope still exist. There will be always two-sided of the coin. There always be a good to balanced the evil.
Just like daybreak will comes after nighttime. Major awakening in human consciousness of the chosen ones will be the hope for humanity.
No matter how bad, how evil every plans, there always will be natural order of the UNIVERSE balancing the scale.
No matter how smart human’s plans is, I always trust the DIVINE PLAN……..
Your words so resonate with the Truth as it is in Christ, yet you are so, so, very far away from Him.
You write “Just like daybreak will come after nighttime”.
On this, the Creator’s (Jesus Christ) word says:
The night is far spent, the Day is at hand.
Romans 13:12.
After the Lord’s Return in unsurpassed glory, there will come a morning without clouds:
2 Samuel 23:4.
Therefore our ONLY hope is in the crucified Saviour.
This IS “the DIVINE PLAN” there is no plan b….
Religions are merely stand on ‘faith’ but no concrete or solid foundation to depend on.
Just because the compilation of written diary/novel of some human turn into so-called ‘holy’ bible doesn’t change the fact of the book comes from human, created by human & not from GOD.
Your holy bible cherry picks doesn’t mean that those are the words of god and me can’t use it except for religious context. And. you are the only one authorized to use it.
If quote “TRUTH ARE STRANGER THAN FICTION” in bible, do yo will quote it as religious context…?
All religious scriptures always use death as punishment (judgement) for all evil doers as reminder to install-scare into human reality. But, no human ever comes back from the dead to tell the story of afterlife.
Well, belief in religion does feel comfort in facing death-bed but does not EVER stop the evil on living reality. Hardship & suffering exists in daily lives. Does religions ever eradicate those suffering..?
The GREAT RESET of 1200 years are natural cycles. They use this cycle to play god & saying this is necessarily to execute ORDER after CHAOS agenda.
The truth is, they wants all human memory & history to be erased with clean slate in order for them to kick-start the civilization ANEW with fabricated world history as per blueprint they created exactly like previous plans.
As the bearer of the water sign (Scorpio) of “DEATH & REBIRTH”, I will not allowed them to still playing god continued.
This time, the great resets of upcoming 7th cycles will be on MY terms & conditions.
Because the controllers of this world own it all, politicians are nothing but their puppets.
The largest photovoltaic farm in the country is currently being built in southern Poland. They’re still investing in this business – unfortunately 🙁 Does it make sense? Will it work? And above all, what impact does it have on the environment?