California Is an Incubator for Concepts in Environmentalism, Sustainability

We in California bear a particular responsibility, as, for some reason, many social phenomena start here, and, if they’re successful, they’re picked up by the rest of the country and ultimately by the rest of the world. This, btw, is one of several good responses to the oft-asked question: does it really matter what happens in California environmentally, considering that China is building a new coal-fired power plant at the rate of one per week? Of course it matters. What starts here doesn’t stay here.

And even if that we’re the case, here’s another response, one that would apply even if California were an island with no communication to the rest of the world at all:  Decent people do what’s right regardless of how other people are acting.  You don’t litter, do you?  Now ask yourself why you refrain from littering.  Is it because no one litters?  No, plenty of people litter; they’re called “slobs.”  You’re not a slob.