Mankind may face extinction!

Just a quick question.

How can one state (or even 3) stave off global warming?

I mean, the world is alot bigger than California. Isn't there like Asia, and Europe? Maybe there's another continent or 2 out there that I haven't seen (I'm not a map-guy) but the world isn't made of California.

Yes... How indeed.... How is it that every 18 wheeler sold in the United States (and by extension, impacting world wide sales) are to the strict regulations of an administrative board, within the California State Government? 

How is it the egg industry could be forced to change and bankrupt some, entirely and 100% ALONE by the regulations passed in and for the state of California? Look at your own car in the driveway.....and more than one thing required or legally mandated came from Sacramento, not Washington. 

How? Size matters and numbers rule over all. California has a population and buying power sufficient to dictate terms across a number of industries, and they do on a smaller scale what the Feds do to every state. How did we ever have a 55 mile an hour speed limit? Did congress ever pass that? No... They most certainly did NOT. Nor did they pass a drinking age...but if states liked to HAVE funding for a highway, then they did it at 55, or they drank at 21...or they could go panhandle up a state road budget, because Washington would hold their OWN submitted tax money back until states DID conform.


In the case of California? They are leaders ..and defining leaders...in Auto, truck, produce, poultry, meat, seafood and more for industry. By that position, they can dictate almost anything they want...and we can either follow it or either get nothing FROM California ..or more effective to extort people? Whatever someone has will not be sold IN California. 

Sheer population and economic numbers give them that totally unbalanced level of influence....and so..yeah, when moonbeam speaks? The nation may actually SEE forced change from it. Depends on what California has in mind this time.

LOL.... Hey! That is an idea! They'd be lost and looking for translators!

Hey, I have an even better idea. California is also the only state in the nation (unless Alaska and Hawaii are similar for the same reasons) to have independent and fully operational border crossing stations on every land crossing into the state. Some are at the border..and some further in, but you aren't legally entering that state without crossing through one.

So... Why leave them as simply agricultural checks? Why not take California up on a dandy idea they probably didn't even know they had yet.. (grin)

Turn those border crossing checkpoints into border CONTROL checkpoints and give California all the freedom they want....by defining the United States as everything on THIS side of their properly controlled 'state' border.

Global warming wouldn't even be an issue if a few polution problems were taken care of. This is in direct opposition of the economy though. If we weren't poluting the ecosystem so bad we would have no problem burning some fossil fuels. But not to the extent we are now.

Carbon becomes a problem only when you raise the levels in the environment too high, moderation of adding fossil fuels is necessary. Wasting is what is causing the problem, wasting on things we want and do not need to survive. Now the earth could heal if we quit poisoning it and lowering it's ability to heal and provide for us. Concentrating natural chemistry, introducing unnatural chemistry, and killing off things that help to create homeostasis in the environment causes the problem. Corn gas is a negative impact on the environment, not a positive one. The biofriendly wood pellets they are creating here are far from biofriendly. It is all a marketing scam to induce people to buy products and promote businesses.

What is causing the biggest problem. I would say that all the jets in the air flying over are a contributor. People say it is better to fly because driving would create more polution. But think of this, would you take a trip to Vegas if you had to drive there and it meant you had to spend three days behind the wheel each way and four nights in the motel? You couldn't do that on a week vacation. You would not go. You would stay home and do something locally, like camping or taking a trip to shop in Green Bay. You would save your vacation for deer camp and have a ball playing cards and drinking beer. Although the toilet paper usage would go up from the hunting trip and the gas from the beans and beer would contribute to global warming, you would still save a lot. Just think how much water would be saved from the guys not showering for the week.

How about creating things to last instead of promoting planned obsolescence and death dating of items. Then you would not have to buy them again and again. Look at the polution in China, you could cut that in half if you were to make things to last. But then again, there would be less jobs here in America selling stuff. Put some factories back here and save the shipping cost on the environment.

Economy, or the distorted version we have, is contributing greatly to our problems. Greed is a big contributer, trying to make a fast buck is killing us. Our wants, not our needs is killing the planet, stop doing things that are not necessary and analyze your needs. When our microwave went caphouy (haven't got a clue how to spell that) we decided to try life without one. To our surprise life was not harder, we just verified something that we already knew. We make our popcorn in a pot with real butter added now, not that microwave crap. We can't even stomach the microwave stuff anymore, it tastes like chemicals. Funny we were so misled before to believe it was good, all the brands actually taste terrible, even the ones we thought were good. We had forgotten how good popcorn can be if cooked in a pot on the stove.

We have been conditioned to believe the commercial foods taste better with all their concentrated chemistry. When you get used to the chemicals that hijack our tastebuds that they put in it it makes you need it or it messes up your thinking. It is all a alchemic scam to get us to need this chemistry when in essense it is an addiction to concentrated chemistry that is of the neurological nature. Making this concentrated chemistry is hard on the environment, it is natural but creates toxic compounds if it is concentrated. Sure we poop or pee out this chemistry eventually, but where does it go. It unbalances the environment, most of these chemicals are not addressed in the sewer treatment plants. They only look for organics and sometimes certain metals, but they still discharge the stuff if the metals are too high, they try to look for the source instead. Pharmacutical drugs are not removed from sewage, most are discharged in the liquid. Don't look and you won't see is a common practice.

If we did not waste so much fossil fuel on things we really don't need, the earth would not have so much problem with it. If you lower your thermostat at night it has positive health effects, the effect on fuel savings is not that much. We need to heat our homes, we do not need a new washer just because a new model came out. We do not need the 60 inch TV when the 42 inch tv is not that old. The need for bigger and bigger TVs is a clue, it shows you how blind we have become.

Temecula is 60 miles south of 15/215 split on the 15 right on the bordered of Riverside County and San Diego county, which starts right at the rainbow area. The point I was trying to make is there isn't any AG inspection between TJ or the San Diego entrance to California, the only place is the border itself and the checkpoint I was referring to. It is easily closed 50% of the time. There is a reason they have those signs on the 8 and the 5 frwy coming up from San diego warning drivers of illegal families crossing the frwy. Remember these? 


This was taken right off of the 5 frwy about 5 miles out of TJ just over the border in San Diego. It's hard to imagine these are even necessary.