The United States (America is a much bigger place than Americans generally recognise) is the idealogical seat that drives Western materialist capitalism, it’s not because Europe or Britain wants to be like you, it is driven by the market that the USA created. So whilst i’m happy that the USA is changing, i’m not happy with your portrayal that it is simply a whimsical fancy that Europe is operating in this way. It’s a political ideology that is being employed successfully, one that is damaging to the Earth and to humanity. I hope that the changes in the USA materialise and spread like the other ideas that have spread from the country.