Revolutionary California

Wall Street Journal ^ | October 29, 2019 | Holman W. Jenkins

[karpov]

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The wildfire crisis is ultimately the product of a state politics controlled by interest groups whose agenda has drifted out of any cognizable relationship with the daily well-being of the state’s average citizen.

Because California accounts for less than 1% of global emissions, nothing it does will make a difference to climate, but its ratepayers shell out billions for wind and solar that might be better spent on fireproofing. A generation of ill-judged environmental activism has all but ended forest management in favor of letting dead trees and underbrush build up because it’s more “natural.” At the same time, residents resist any natural or planned fires that would consume this tinder before it gives rise to conflagrations like those now menacing Los Angeles and San Francisco.

An activist state Supreme Court imposed on utilities responsibility for any wildfires started by their equipment regardless of negligence. At the same time, state policy obliges them to extend their networks to support housing developments in areas the state designates as “very high fire risk.”

California’s activist one-party government, with its penchant for pretending to be a national government in relation to the hot-button issues of the left, is where all these roads end. Elites subsidize electric cars for themselves while promoting zoning that forces lower-income workers to commute three hours to a job or live in their cars. PG&E can’t keep trees off its power lines but can supply exact numbers for how many LGBTQ workers it employs.

Entrenched one-party government has given California’s political class too much incentive to cater to the perpetual, year-round, full-time priorities of public-sector unions, green groups and the organized academic left rather than care about the quality of life for the average person in the state.

[allendale]

Get wok and burn.

[ptsal]

gee whiz...paywall

[eyeamok]

An activist state Supreme Court imposed on utilities responsibility for any wildfires started by their equipment regardless of negligence

This can not be stressed enough. Because of the actions of the radical left court, all the Utility companies are spooked big time. Because of this, when the wind blows above 25 mph, they are just Shutting Down the Electricity. They shut mine off at 3:30 this morning. I have lived here for almost 60 years, and NEVER in my life have they done this before. Thank You Ca Supreme Court of Fools.

[bboop]

Ship of Fools indeed. This article nails it - what I could read before the PayWall. And then the Idiot Governor blames the utilities!! I bet HIS power is not cut off. Cali-Zuela here

[bboop]

Ship of Fools indeed. This article nails it - what I could read before the PayWall. And then the Idiot Governor blames the utilities!! I bet HIS power is not cut off. Cali-Zuela here

[Spruce]

California is the canary in the coal mine for America

[Hojczyk]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zk6aGg7iZ8M

Most of the forest land in the SE is privately owned..therfore people take care of it and profit of it..

California problem started back in 1980 when the greenies got rid of logging

[CaptainAmiigaf]

Truly, Governor GRUESOME NEWSOME bears the guilt for the condition he forced onto “his” state.
His lack of obvious needed action is GUILTY by PROUD NEGLECT.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Prayers for a massive earthquaking political shift of tectonic proportion. In the mighty name of Jesus.

[CondoleezzaProtege]

Proportions*

[Calvin Locke]

That wasn’t when Gerry Brown was governor, was it?

I seem to remember his book “How I Whipped the Medfly” from around that time.

[kiryandil]

The Babylon Bee mocks Calizuela:

Texas Luring Jobs Away From California With Promises Of Electricity

[Hojczyk]

More to do with the spotted owl...

You also have to figure in the Nation Forest...

If there is no logging the Head of the National Forest has a lot less work to do..

No roads have to be built..it was quite an operation to get the timber out and reforest the cut areas..

[NCMtnMama]

California is the canary in the coal mine for America.

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Afraid you are correct. God help us ...

[Buttons12]

...Because of the actions of the radical left court, all the Utility companies are spooked big time. Because of this, when the wind blows above 25 mph, they are just Shutting Down the Electricity. They shut mine off at 3:30 this morning. I have lived here for almost 60 years, and NEVER in my life have they done this before...

I'd be out of there so fast -- !!

If it's tolerated, it's going to get worse, just saying...

[Sicon]

When I was in grade school in the late 1970's, they tore down all of the walls separating the classrooms in the school. This "Open Center" concept came from California, and was somehow supposed to improve the classroom environment. All that it actually did was create a noisy, distracting mess, where students seated near the blackboards now separating what was formerly two classrooms separated by a solid wall, would talk to each other, pass notes, and occasionally throw things (pens/pencils, erasers, etc.) from one room to the other. It was an absolute joke, and within a few years, the walls were put back.

That experience gave me a pretty low opinion of the "brilliance" coming from the "experts" in California, and I was only 9 or 10 at the time. My opinion of California today is far worse than it was then.

[Mashood]

After the fires come the mud slides...

[NormsRevenge]

Blazing new trails in stupidity and mismanagement of resources.. California lights the way to a new age of Progre$$ivism.

[PGalt]

California is the canary in the coal mine for America

Statism on steroids ALERT!

There is no downside for the left to drive citizens out of such a beautiful state.

Bankrupt state? Too big to fail. Help us FEDS.