Why is East Asia joining the race now (as opposed to decades earlier like Germany and Denmark)? More perplexingly, what would drive these countries, which were (and still are) dependent on cheap and plentiful fossil fuels, to become such strong advocates of clean energy technologies? Aside from the Paris Agreement, state-run power monopolies and the move away from nuclear power, Green Growth represents an extension of the long-held tradition of “developmentalism,” or developmental environmentalism. In spite of Trump, the world community needs to rally behind solving climate change "episodic multilateral" fashion with existential fervor and urgency.