I think it's interesting that a large, successful economy the size of California's always seems able to generate people who believe that it's their mission in life to f____ it up. In an odd, ass-backward way, the number and variety of such destructive individuals in the United States speaks to the success of our way of life.
Only in a decadent (in the classic traditional neutral meaning of the word) society which valued freedom, then moved on to "exess and abuse" can nimbys, bananas and "environmentalists" exist.