While California chases climate change chimeras, danger looms
California
has been in the headlines a lot lately. In the first half of the year, it
hogged headlines because Governor Newsom imposed some of America’s most
draconian lockdown rules on Californians (although they naturally didn’t apply
to protests). While these headlines applied equally to other Democrat-run
states, California blazed a new trail in August, when a heatwave caused the
state to have rolling blackouts, followed by raging fires.
What
was significant about both the blackouts and the fires was that they could have
been prevented. Both resulted from California’s obsession with climate change
and mindless environmentalism. Now, though, it appears that California is
also due for an imminent apocalyptic flood. California can work to save itself,
but it’s spending money in all the wrong places.
Although
the media were excited about an allegedly record-breaking heatwave this August,
the reality is that California has meltingly-hot heatwaves at least twice a
year. To the extent some years are hotter than others, the temperatures differ
by the single digits.
What
made this year different was that the power grid failed over large parts of
California. The grid didn’t fail, though, because the heat was too great. It
failed because Pacific Gas & Electric company, a California public utility,
has bowed to the climate change fanatics and put all of its energies into
renewables. Even Governor Newsom had to concede that, when people needed A/C, solar energy failed.
The
focus on climate change also meant that PG&E, instead of updating its aging
power lines, some of which are almost 100 years old, poured its money into
renewables. As always, it was these
power lines that accounted for most of the fires that have turned California
into an inferno. (The massive lightning storm didn’t help, but it was the power
lines that set the state on fire.)
The
other thing that set California ablaze was the environmentalist pressure not to
do preemptive trimming and controlled burns. As he did in 2018, with the deadly
Camp Fire in Butte County, President Trump criticized California’s
forestry practices:
“I see again, the forest fires are starting. They’re
starting again in California,” Trump said at a campaign event in Old
Forge, Pa. “And I said, you’ve got to clean your floors. You’ve got to clean
your forests.”
It’s
not just Trump saying this. One of the worst fire areas this August was in Big
Basin, California’s oldest state park, home to the spectacular coast
redwoods. These trees are hundreds of feet tall and can be almost 2,000 years
old. This year’s fire killed several of
those trees – and it could have been avoided.
Nine months ago, Portia Halbert, a Big Basin environmental scientist, was
expressing concern about the fact that there hadn’t been a prescribed burn
there in three years:
“Given the right conditions, we’re poised to have
catastrophic wildfires all over California,” says Halbert, who works for the
Santa Cruz District of the California State Park System. “So what’s my anxiety
level like? I think we’ve been really lucky to avoid something very extreme
here in the Santa Cruz Mountains.”
The
third world power outages and devastating infernos in California are what the
Obama administration might have called “man-caused disasters” if had hadn’t already
used that term on terrorist attacks. They all could have been
avoided.
However,
it appears that there’s another imminent disaster that
California should be preparing for rather than obsessing about the fact that
the earth’s climate changes. A flood of Biblical proportions is waiting in
the wings. A massive flood hit in the winter of 1861-1862, submerging the
Central Valley in up to 15 feet of water:
When it was thought of at all, the flood was once
considered a thousand-year anomaly, a freak occurrence. But emerging science
demonstrates that floods of even greater magnitude occurred every 100 to 200
years in California’s precolonial history.
This
matters beyond California because the Central Valley provides significant
amounts of America’s food supply:
The state produces nearly all of the almonds, walnuts, and
pistachios consumed domestically; 90 percent or more of the broccoli, carrots,
garlic, celery, grapes, tangerines, plums, and artichokes; at least 75 percent
of the cauliflower, apricots, lemons, strawberries, and raspberries; and more
than 40 percent of the lettuce, cabbage, oranges, peaches, and peppers.
The
state also produces a fifth of the nation’s milk. If California drowns, America
starves. And yet the state, fussing about the ocean rising an inch in a hundred
years, is doing nothing to harden its infrastructure against heavy rain. We
already know from El Nino years, with their unusually heavy rainfall, that the
state’s infrastructure has inadequate drainage.
California
is what happens when politicians worship at the Altar of Climate Change. As
they try desperately to appease a capricious God that’s responsible for it
being too hot, too cold, too wet, or too dry, depending on how the auguries
read, they’re utterly failing to protect California, and even the rest of
America, against entirely predictable weather occurrences.
Image: El Nino flooding in
California; public domain.
A GLIMPSE
INTO THE GLOBALIST AGENDA OF A NATION RULE BY AND FOR THE RICH AND WALL STREET.
THIS REQUIRES OPEN BORDERS FOR ENDLESS HORDES OF ‘CHEAP’ LABOR TO KEEP WAGES
DEPRESSED AND FINISH OFF THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS.
Rep. Mo
Brooks (R-AL) says the “Masters of the Universe” (HIGH TECH BILLIONAIRES) want more legal
immigration to the United States to further diminish the incomes of American
working and middle-class families.
So
why do the citizens of blue hells not rebel? That is the question -- Anton and
Hanson and Jenkins, like so many of us, know they must.
Maybe that’s part of it. I do
think that the movement in the direction of feudal, tyrannical governance is
being aided by the influx of millions of illegal immigrants from places where
this kind of government is the norm.
Is
Feudalism Our Future?
It’s
increasingly clear that one-party polities are corrupt, badly managed and serve
the interests only of those at the top and their courtiers. I think that if Biden
and Harris win, the entire country will devolve to a kingdom
of state and regional duchies composed
of often semi-hereditary rulers in the pay of the rich, donor
class, the clerisy (media scribblers, complaisant judicial appointees and
academic rent seekers who promote favored policies and shut out the
dissenters), an impoverished, smaller, and powerless middle class and a vast
layer of muzzled, docile poor serfs. They will rule by fiat (often
inconsistently and illogically) as they have been in dealing with COVID-19. Because they can, the
Constitution to the contrary notwithstanding.
In
a lengthy essay, Michael Anton details why he thinks the leftist
dream (which, in essence is a feudal form of tyranny) is within reach if Trump
loses. I urge you all to read in its entirety this thoughtful
article at your leisure. At best, I can only highlight some of the many salient
points he makes.
1. Since the 1960s policies and
practices have enriched the ruling class and “erode our natural and
constitutionally guaranteed rights and liberties” as they degraded our culture
and dishonored our heritage.
2. At present the office of the
presidency is seriously weaker than the unitary executive described in the
Constitution intended as an entrenched bureaucracy undermines, flouts and
disobeys the president at every turn if he dares to advance policies “unpopular
with the deep state.”
3. The benign phrase
“public-private partnership” is no less than “the use of state power to serve
private interests” and the relationship is one in which the senior partner is
always big business.
4. Congress, he argues “is a
joke.” Our government is run by “The cogs and lickspittles in the bureaucracy, led
by a small elite in corporations, above all in Big Tech and finance, will
determine all important policies, foreign and domestic.”
5. The COVID lockdowns and mandates
engineered by governors and mayors without laws to permit them based on
“expert” lies continue even as we know the virus is definitely not the plague
we were told it would be.
He
argues that should Trump lose we can expect increasingly anti-democratic
governance “committed to social engineering and grievance politics” and a
continued undermining of virtue and promotion of vice.
Anton
talks about the undermining of the right to self-defense and the outrageous
prosecution of Kyle Rittenhouse, who in Kenosha did just that against three
attackers whose marauding had been encouraged by the Wisconsin governor’s
and local mayor’s refusal to enforce the laws to maintain order.
Attorney
Lin Wood, who successfully sued on behalf of Robert Jewell and Nick
Sandmann and who this week volunteered to
represent Kyle Rittenhouse (the hero of Kenosha) for defamation
says we are facing a revolution and need to prepare ourselves for the
fight.
Lin Wood @LLinWood
(1) Republicans are talking “policy differences” while focusing on upcoming
election. They are not taking the current situation serious or they are just
plain stupid. They need to face truth that our country is under attack.
(2) The
former President, Barack Obama, is calling for sustained protests. The leader
of the resistance movement, Hillary Clinton, is saying that we should not
accept the results of the next election.
(3) The Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, is describing our President,
@realDonaldTrump, as an enemy of the state. Many radical members of Congress
are openly calling for the overthrow of our government.
(4) 1 + 1 + 1 = Revolution.
#FightBack
5:55 AM · Aug 29, 2020
The Duchy of Newsom as the Template of the New Order
No
better example of what Anton describes as our future can I find than the
sad state of California under the governorship of Gavin Newsom. I’ve written
elsewhere of the Green New Deal disaster he helped birth and which now plunges
much of his state into darkness and misery.
Victor David Hanson has written extensively on
what has brought his home state so rich in natural resources to its knees.
Here’s but one of his latest reports.
It begins (and then extensively documents): “Power outages, fires,
water shortages, rising taxes, crumbling and congested highways, dismal
schools, lawlessness…”
At
the Wall Street Journal, Holman Jenkins, Jr. notes that
California politicians obsess about things like “climate change” they are
powerless to do anything about while ignoring serious problems they could do
something about if only they had the skills and will to govern. In that
one-party state there is simply no accountability for failure of vision and
execution:
Unfortunately, the people running the state,
including Joe Biden’s prospective veep, have been mostly meme-chasing,
pose-striking calculators. Their only career plan: nurse their standing with Hollywood
green activists, trial lawyers and public-sector unions. In a one-party state,
there is no serious clash of policy prescriptions. That’s how Kamala Harris
could reach middle age with a giant vacancy in her résumé where one would
normally find some connection to policy ideas.
If the state is to dig out of its deepening hole,
it will need something else. It will need, you know, ideas. In fact, only a
revolution of ideas can save it from the path it’s on. And the first idea is
easy to see. The state will have to wake up from the sheer ludicrousness of
devoting so much of its politics to a problem its politics can’t fix at the
expense to those it can.
So
why do the citizens of blue hells not rebel? That is the question -- Anton and
Hanson and Jenkins, like so many of us, know they must.
My
online friend “The Infamous Ignatz” sees it in psychological terms:
I don't think the people living in urban blue
hells want to live in hell, but irrationality on a mass scale is made up of
millions of little individual irrationalities collectivized.
An irrational person has a very, very difficult
time choosing the rational option because it involves so many self-negating
decisions, not least of which is stopping the magical thinking and the blaming
of others for the problem.
That's why I equate irrational society with
personality disorders. It's not that people in urban hellscapes aren't
miserable, they just don't see any way out. For those outside looking in,
American cities' electoral habits fit Einstein's apocryphal definition of
insanity better than anything I can think of.
What makes it even more incurable and persistent
is the very people the voters think they are hiring as their therapists not
only come themselves from the ranks of the disordered but they have very
powerful incentives making sure the patient never gets well.
Maybe
that’s part of it. I do think that the movement in the direction of feudal,
tyrannical governance is being aided by the influx of millions of illegal
immigrants from places where this kind of government is the norm. It gained force when
civics education was dropped in schools in favor of less significant subjects,
and the hollowing out of our higher education institutions, including law
schools, which since the 1960s have increasingly become there-oughta-be-a-law
schools which encourage future judges and law clerks to imagine themselves as
legislators and executives. Nor can we forget the role being played by the
tech giants, who are using IT as a weapon for social control and the
destruction of privacy. In any event, November will have us in the fight of
our lives. Be prepared.
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