03-06-2024, 01:02 PM
(03-06-2024, 12:32 PM)Byrd Wrote: The religious societies ARE invested in homogenization of laws and of cultures, too, and on a global scale. It is ironic to see people rail against "one world government" and then in the next breath talk about what the world will look like when "Jesus returns."
SPLC has less of an impact than the Southern Baptist Church (which has nearly 50,000 churches in its fold.) And California's emissions laws ... why are they so extreme?
Take a look:
[Image: https://waterandpower.org/M1%20Historic%...g_1948.jpg]
THIS was life in California in the 1970's.
50 years later it's better but the air quality in the cities (chart of how polluted air is in cities - https://www.lung.org/research/sota/city-...ted-cities) isn't as good as the air quality in Austin, Texas (where I lived for many years.) And the citizens of California would prefer to have the same quality of air as most people in Colorado.
So they're stricter on emissions to try and get their air quality from Not Very Healthy to "Something More Like Billings, Montana."
Do you think it's wrong for them to try and improve their air by cracking down on the vehicles that are making it worse?
We can improve our homes without forcing others. You know the maxim "your rights end where mine begin". So bad example with emissions laws, but Perth looks like that every second summer because bushfires, but no, lets screw people who drive and impose that on the states you mention with clean air.
And I was thinking more Cali banning petrol lawn mowers while doing nothing about industrial emissions. Yeah, lets target the least emissions devices, and ignore the industry that has more shit put in the sky than your leafblower.
But yeah that pic you posted is a joke compared to bushfire season here. Driving a Prius wont stop that, actual e nuanced enviro policy will.
I was not here.
