It’s so weird. Didn’t the majority of the citizens of the People’s Republik Of California vote for this? Don’t they support all this? Aren’t they out there reducing their own carbon footprints? Using less electricity? Selling their fossil fueled vehicles and buying an EV, taking the bus, walking and biking? Buying 2nd hand clothes?
California will fail to meet its ambitious mandates for combating climate change unless the state almost triples its rate of reducing greenhouse gases through 2030, according to a new analysis released today.
After dropping during the pandemic, California’s emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other climate-warming gases increased 3.4% in 2021, when the economy rebounded. The increase puts California further away from reaching its target mandated under state law: emitting 40% less in 2030 than in 1990 — a feat that will become more expensive and more difficult as time passes, the report’s authors told CalMatters.
“The fact that they need to increase the speed of reduction at about three times faster than they’re actually doing — that does not bode well,” said Stafford Nichols, a researcher at Beacon Economics, a Los Angeles-based economics research firm, and a co-author of the annual California Green Innovation Index released today.
“As we get closer to that 2030 goal, the fact that we’re further off just means that we have to decrease faster each year.”
I have a solution: car manufacturers should stop selling fossil fueled vehicles in the state. Fossil fuels companies should stop selling their products to the PRC state government, slowly scaling back so they sell none. Which could create an issue for all the food production. Airlines should refuse to fly any state employee or elected official. And no fuel for the private jets of elected officials. All AC systems should be shut off at government buildings. It would be a good start, right?
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