A lot of the green tech initiatives are neither green nor real alternatives. Electric cars need manufacture, lithium batteries which are not friendly to the environment, and need to be charged. The electrical charge is merely generated elsewhere, most likely by fossil fuels. Solar needs energy rich manufacture, replacement every few decades, and on the home level battery banks, power inverters, etc. Wind needs constant maintenance and has an unknown duty cycle.

None of them are any type of solution in their own right, but government has attempted to subsidize many companies.