When It Comes To Driving Climate Change Mitigation, Oregon Is Stuck in Neutral
Here’s a sad story on climate inaction. If we’re having trouble getting ‘er done in Oregon, it’s hard to know where else to turn.
What’s especially tragic is that experts agree that the bill in question would bring jobs along with it. One would think that blocking the passage of such a measure would be impossible. One would be wrong.
Apparently, the opposition says that Oregon’s emissions reductions will not make a difference because the state is too small. Isn’t that an absurd thing to say? My driving a Prius makes a negligible difference to the health of the planet, but it’s the right thing to do. Oregon’s economy is larger than New Zealand’s, but the Kiwis don’t use their small size as an excuse not to commit to environmental sustainability.
The people of Oregon tend to be progressive; they’ll make this happen eventually. The problem: every minute counts. Let’s move on this.
Craig,
Move on what exactly ? More Californian style boondoggles and hypocrisy ?
Do you know it’s extraordinarily difficult to discover how many solar panels are installed in California ! You’d think the state would be loudly boasting of the number, instead it’s a really difficult statistic to discover.
Why? Could it be because there has been little or no planning for disposal of damaged, obsolete or redundant panels ? No “recycling” facilities exist in California for these panels as despite a lot of highly publicized optimistic misinformation, Solar panels are extremely difficult and very expensive to recycle effectively.
Like Germany, the state of California has an “out of sight,out of mind”, policy.
California quietly ships this toxic waste out of state where it’s then either quietly dumped at sea, or shipped to countries like Bangladesh to be broken up by workers to poor and desperate to worry about the toxic waste.
California exports millions of tonnes of solar toxic waste per year and buys back millions of tonnes of finished goods and materials for the solar industry.
The hypocrisy?
Well, that comes with the smug boasting by “green” advocates, self-righteously proclaiming their “environmental” credentials, gained by clever propaganda and self-delusion.
Driving a Prius is a very good symbol. I like hybrid technology and was a very early adopter. I agree the actual environmental impact of hybrid technology relatively is insignificant, but it does educate people about EV transport in an acceptable fashion.
However, Prius hybrid technology is now over 20 years in existence. I would have thought, a passionate environmental advocate such as yourself, would have found the lure of Tesla or similar EV ownerdhip, irresistible ? .
(after all, even ‘trolls’, like me have owned a EV’s for more than a decade after graduating from Hybrids).
So, when you criticize Oregon, you might like to examine whether you are really so righteous? Or is it just a case of “do as I say, not as I do?” ?