As I have said many times and have alluded to over and over again, I think that California voters are either dumb or uninformed. Being uninformed, or perhaps better stated, mal-informed, is in large part due to the extremely liberal newspapers in this state. For example, if you are a conservative and write a well thought out letter-to-the-editor, the chances of it being are about as close to zero as it gets. Whereas, if your first name is “Bunny,” you can anticipate a published letter monthly … guess what political side “Bunny” is on!
Again this morning I read something that merely reenforced my “stupid California voter” position. From whatsupwiththat:
“Nearly half of Californians — and more than half of Inland Empire residents — said they’ve been affected by such a weather event in the past two years. That’s compared with one in three adults nationwide who in March told Gallup pollsters that they’d been impacted by extreme weather. The PPIC poll also shows that nearly three-quarters of all Californians link such events to climate change.
As a result, more than six in 10 residents told the PPIC that they believe the state’s stricter environmental laws and regulations are worth the cost, even if the rules put jobs or economic growth at risk.”
While I know that logic is not something that is used in California very much, let’s try it for a change. Consider first the statement: ‘strict regulations are worth the cost, even if the rules put jobs or economic growth at risk.’ To me there is only one logical reason to put people out of work, and that would be if there was a true imminent emergency and taking away someone’s livelihood would make a dramatic difference. Unfortunately, the world is composed of many nations, and what California does is like the proverbial “pissing in the ocean.”
The Energy Institute recently released its statistical assessment of global energy use and emissions in June 2023 updating global energy and emissions statistical data through year 2022.
In other words while the world’s energy consumption is basically not changing in both OECD & Non OECD nations (led by China and India), the World CO2 Emissions Increase is dramatically occurring in Non OECD Nations.
A second table from the Energy Institute shows:
While the U.S, EU and other OECD nations reduced CO2 emissions by over 2 billion metric tons between 2005 and 2022 the non-OECD nations hugely increased CO2 emissions by over 8.2 billion metric tons during this period resulting in the world’s emissions climbing by over 6.1 billion metric tons between 2005 and 2022.
In other words what the U.S and other OECD Nations do does not amount to a hill of beans when the overall global picture is considered.
Furthermore,
California’s CO2 emissions are trivially insignificant compared to the global non-OECD nations emissions levels.
So, of course, putting California jobs at risk by doing things that make but a trivial difference on the world stage makes sense only to those who do not seem to be able to think logically … and these dumb or uninformed dum-dums seem to be concentrated here on the west coast!
californiacontrarian
7/25/23