Africa, China, India, Norway, Japan and Russia know what the future holds. It is not a future that can grow on the promises of a new, green, clean, bright future with electrons galore. Read this to see how other countries are waking up to reality while America and Europe are slumbering into disaster. Energy colonialists are profiting off the energy poverty of billions of people, while they enjoy their energy privileged lifestyle. Energy equity is possible, but not based on the promises of those who say we all can have plentiful, clean and free electrons when the sun does not shine or the wind does not blow, as they jet off to their next environmental conference. To quote Professor V. Smil, ” We are a fossil fueled civilization, and we will be for a long time.”