Two things where CA is behind China

it struck me today that CA is only slightly behind China, in terms of litter. Then again, China has been around for 5,000 years. How long have Europeans been in CA? I think the first Euro's to sail by and not and were in the 1500's. And the Gold Rush was, what is that sports team again? 1849? So, really, we are doing pretty damn well given how short a time we have been here.


 And the other way CA is behind China is in solar power, both for passive hot water and for electricity generation. I saw ONE passive hot water system today. and I can recall one photovoltaic array in someone's yard (a couple square yards). In China, that 3rd world backwater, EVERY building has a passive solar hot water system on the roof and there are TONS of photovolaic arrays all over the place. And, uh, CA is rather sunny, eh?

I
think
back
to
the
Bush/Cheney
Administration
and
how they increased the tax exemption for "farm"vehicles over 6,000lbs to $100,000. And what happened? Hummer happened. And Cadillac started advertising their Escalade as "over 6,000lbs!" Man, talk about incentivizing Americans to burn more oil/do the wrong thing. Unless, of course, we want our govt's purpose to be to benefit multinational oil and gas corporations...


 I wish we, and the govt that purportedly represents us (and not corporations - although I know some people think "corporations are people too, my friend"), would do better; and think longer term than the next quarterly profit, or election cycle.