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California Likely to Impose Drastic Carbon Dioxide Restrictions

posted by CoolHand on Wednesday August 31 2016, @05:37AM   Printer-friendly
from the tonight-they're-going-to-pollute-like-its-1999 dept.

butthurt writes:

Both houses of the California legislature have passed a bill called SB-32 which would tell the California Air Resources Board "to ensure that statewide greenhouse gas emissions are reduced to 40% below the 1990 level by 2030." The state's Democratic governor has issued a statement indicating that he intends to sign it into law.

The Western States Petroleum Association and the California Manufacturers & Technology Association expressed their opposition to the bill.

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  • (Score: 2) by quintessence on Wednesday August 31 2016, @03:08PM

    by quintessence (6227) on Wednesday August 31 2016, @03:08PM (#395710)

    This sounds like a variation on Malthus, which hasn't had very good predictive power.

    Besides, there is a great deal of catastrophe and pain to occur before people take flight, which it seems like California is attempting to ameliorate, even if it is through questionable means. You'll note the poorest of the poor are the ones still left in Detroit. They don't have the means to move, and definitely don't have the means to rebuild.

    Much of the problems can be traced back to Henry George's observation about San Francisco back in 1871, and really haven't improved since. If anything, much of the problems can be traced back to property tax rates being too low and attempting to capitalize on economic rents.

    http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/09/san-francisco-property-tax-rate-slated-drop-next-year.html [socketsite.com]
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNYViRmSUBE [youtube.com]

    The high CO2 emissions are just a by-product of the confluence of those two events.

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