“With wildfires raging across California on Wednesday—and with portions of the state living under an unprecedented “Extreme Red Flag Warning” issued by the National Weather Service due to the severe conditions—some climate experts are openly wondering if this kind of harrowing “new normal” brought on by the climate crisis could make vast regions of the country entirely uninhabitable.
Fears grow of an ‘uninhabitable’ California as climate crisis-fueled fires rage”
A Note To Readers
The quote above from another Chicken Little, of course, typifies the culture of pessimism that has come to dominate large sections of the so-called “political class” and much of the media in recent decades. That is not the outlook that built the Transcontinental Railroad, the Tennessee Valley Authority, Hoover Dam, the Central Valley Project and put a man on the Moon. And only a return to “the can do anything” idea that did accomplish what many said then, and now, was “impossible,” will fix the catastrophe that is now California and much of the rest of the country.
This week we look at more background to the present crisis in California, including how PG&E is the marker for decades of turning this once production driven nation into, increasingly, a failed state.
The story presents the challenge to us all to, finally, grasp with both hands, the solution presented by Lyndon LaRouche for the past 50 years– and encapsulated in his “Four Laws of Economic Recovery.” I present those immediately below, once again.
Then our report on PG&E, the electrical shutdown to millions of Californians which has been going on for near three weeks now, and the fires, includes a short report I wrote earlier this week, “Bankrupt and Carrion for the Vultures, PG&E Turns Off the Lights While California Burns.”
This is followed by a longer background report on the history of PG&E, deregulation of electricity and the shift by PG&E (like much of the U.S. corporate sector) beginning especially in the 1980s, to being completely focused on “share holder value,” and allowing the electrical grid to become the deadly danger it is today. I title this section, “An Autopsy of California and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E),” since there is no question that PG&E will not continue to exist in its present form.
The report concludes with a video from my associate Jason Ross, “CO₂ Reduction is Costly, Deadly, and Unnecessary.” I am sure it will delight some and enrage others. Have fun.
