By Rich Kozlovich
Well, it turns out Ole Ben once again demonstrates that clarity leads to understanding, and California is now, and has been for many decades, the poster child for stupid.
Because California's population is so big, and has a huge economy, they've been able to dictate to the rest of the nation demanding the rest of the nation change to suit them or they won't allow their products to be sold in California, which I fail to understand how that's not a Constitutional restraint of trade action.
As of a year ago it was claimed if California was a separate nation it's economy would be the fourth largest economy in the world.
And, in a recent tweet, California’s First Partner, Jennifer Siebel Newsom stated: “As the 4th largest economy in the world, California wields significant market influence.” Meanwhile, a state assembly committee fact sheet contained the following exaggeration: “Bloomberg reports that in the 2021 rankings, California would be the 4th largest economy in the world.”
Well, maybe, and then again maybe not, as the author of that piece went on to say:
For a state government so concerned with the spread of misinformation, it is reasonable to expect its leaders to get their facts straight. In this case, they did not.
Did California really surpass Germany? No. California still has a massive population, and a massive economy, neither are as big as Germany's, even as Germany's economy is stagnant. In California but there are foundational issues changing that. People, the productive people who pay taxes, create jobs and a stable society, are fleeing California. Their are massive cracks in California's economy such as huge tech industry layoffs, collapse of the Silicon Valley Bank, all of which has created a huge drop in income tax revenue, and their debt is way out of control, and virtually everything they promote is proving to be a negative, especially their environmental schemes.
Environmentalists, who have massive influence in everything that's being done and failing in California, believe they have all the answers, but it's clear, they don't even have the right questions. If flawed and wrong green predictions was a corporation, it would be a monopoly. Virtually everything they predict and promote turns out disastrous.
They insisted California has to destroy the "dams along the Klamath River in Siskiyou County, Northern California was..... necessary to save salmon – specifically, ‘to restore habitat for endangered fish.’ So, the "river is finally free to carve “its new shape” and man’s colonizing tyranny is over! Except, greenies don’t quite understand as much as they think they do........."The reservoirs drained swiftly, leaving behind vast expanses of fissured mud the color and consistency of chocolate cake batter. The Klamath River is winding through the naked landscape, finding its new shape.".......steelhead trout are dead, and salmon spawning beds destroyed & four hydroelectric dams have been breached.
With brilliant clarity Olivia Murray states:
Greenies’ delusions of intelligence and enlightenment have some very serious real-world consequences. The Green cult is really just another death cult (see “The Left Demands Millions of Human Sacrifices to Appease the Gods of Climate Change” by William Sullivan today), and its approach to nature is infantile. Admiring the beauty of nature and advocating for its conservation are noble attitudes, but it is only the greenies, with their romanticization of leftism, mixed with their supreme lack of awareness, who reap very serious and very detrimental environmental consequences for us all.
Environmentalists have always been against logging, demanding pristine forests, and finding all sort of ways to make that happen with that failed, seriously flawed, and corrupt piece of legislation known and the Endangered Species Act. Remember when environmentalists destroyed the logging industry in the Northwest to save the spotted owl? Do you also remember when it was discovered that spotted owl decimation was actually being caused by the barred owl?
They were wrong again, imagine that. And in their wrong headedness they wrongly destroyed an industry, along with the livelihoods of those people. But it gets worse, all that untouched "pristineness" always ends up causing massive forest fires, something that's been known for many years, and now California is going to spend $500 MILLION this year to thin its 33 million acres of forests to lessen the chance of wildfires.
It turns out Trump was right! While they laughed at him in 2018, in 2020 alone their idiocy cost the lives of "31 people died and another 37 suffered non-fatal injuries due to 9,639 fires spread across the Golden State." Wrong again!
As usual, every left/green scheme/narrative fast becomes a California "job one" project, and the Anthropogenic Climate Change fraud isn't any different.
On Mar 06, 2024 John Stossel published this piece, The Renewable Scam discussing alternative energy saying:
Political scientist Roger Pielke Jr. notes, "It's quite intuitive for people to understand that there's a lot of power in solar energy. We feel the wind. The idea that you can get something for nothing, people find enormously appealing." Especially in California, where politicians now require all new homes to have solar panels, all new cars sold in 2035 to be zero-emission, and all the state's electricity to come from carbon-free resources by 2045. They're getting results, but not good ones: California's cost of electricity increased three times faster than in the rest of America.......Taxpayers pay for rich people to have a highly subsidized solar system.
The fact is because of California's delusional demands they're now incapable of providing their own electrity. They MUST buy it from other states. Francis Menton shows the insanity of their thinking in his article, Can California Really Achieve 85% Carbon-Free Electricity By 2030?, saying:
“California seems utterly determined to be the next pauper state. . . . [A]nyone with an ounce of engineering talent can see where California’s ruinous policies could lead, the human tragedy in the making, how close California and other green states are to losing all the security and comfort their parents and grandparents worked their butts off to provide.”
I'll tell you what, we'll come back to that!
- Oh California! You Are a Mess! And It's Not My Fault
- California is a Mess, And it's Not My Fault, Part II
- California's A Mess, And It's Not My Fault, Part III
We are all born ignorant, but one must work very hard to remain stupid.” Benjamin Franklin
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