California's Green Jihad

Forbes ^ | 6/2/2011 | Joel Kotkin

[Olympiad Fisherman]

Ideas matter, particularly when colored by religious fanaticism, wreaking havoc even in the most favored of places. Take, for instance, Iran, a country blessed with a rich heritage and enormous physical and human resources, but which, thanks to its theocratic regime, is largely an economic basket case and rogue state. Then there’s California ...

[353FMG]

http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/pub_detail.asp?id=9693

[Olympiad Fisherman]

Thanks for the link. This would certainly help with regard to the Muslim problem, but we need to do the same with regard to the environmentalists as well - something which is far less likely because so many people have bought into its line of reasoning on all sides of the political spectrum. Check this out - http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.9342/pub_detail.asp.

[Cincinatus]

Californians are learning what ideological extremism can do to an economy.

No. Californians are seeing what extremism can do to an economy. They aren't learning anything.

[Olympiad Fisherman]

Some are learning about the consequences of a nature first ideology, but many have not learned a thing because they have accepted post modern green mysticism as a way of life. Nature is not romantic and should not be used as foundation for all human activity.