Posted by Tina
I dont have the particulars, just an article from the Bee, but its enough to know that BIG GREEN BROTHER is still on the job and ready to monitor and control how everyone in the state lives.
Today Gov. Arnold signed a bill (Senate Bill 375) that requires communities to consider climate change impacts of development in regional planning with an emphasis on reducing car travel. How nice. It isnt enough to spend 40 years taxing people who dont use it to build BART or to demand green spaces in every neighborhood, now they have to arrange how we “rats” will settle in our individually caged communities. The picture I get down the road is a bunch of tenement housing without green spaces and without lovely tree lined streets.
You might think Im exaggerating but Ive seen some of the living right on top of each other building going on around town and Im pretty sure its what these characters have in mind for the rest of us, ASAP…so the lizards and squirrels will have room to roam and so the rest of us “animals” are forced out of our cars. Does anyone else feel squeezed by the level of coercion thats going on? Do you all feel like you’ve been well represented in this “planning” bill?
Governor signs anti-sprawl bill, by Kevin Yamamura
The bill requires the California Air Resources Board to set regional targets by September 2010 for reducing greenhouse-gas emissions. The state will use its annual $5 billion pot of transportation money to encourage regions to embrace compact residential development. *** “Californians will see more infill,” said SACOG Director Mike McKeever. “They’ll see higher-density housing, particularly in transit corridors. The new areas will look more like existing neighborhoods with a mix of uses between schools, stores and housing.”
Let me get this straight. They will use the $5 Billion pot of transportation money to encourage regions. Is that code for bribe as in, if you dont play ball you wont get that bridge expansion that you need to end the weekly freeway deaths? (Or if you dont we’ll break your county budget, your school allocations…your knees?)
OK…am I making mountains out of mole hills? Lets see. Other countries are way ahead of the US in their green meddling. I ran across another story today from Australia. They want cattle and sheep ranchers to switch to raising Kangaroos to save the planet from excessive green house gases:
* Australian sheep and cattle producers should consider shifting to kangaroos to help reduce emissions of ”greenhouse gases,” a major report on climate change says. Unlike sheep and cows, kangaroos release a negligible amount of methane when they belch and emit wind. *
Well at least it’s just a suggestion…so far. Not everyone is keen on the idea, however
* I don’t want to eat kangaroo. ,font color=green>Ever. It’s dark, chewy, gamey and smelly. But, says Ross Garnaut, the Government’s economics guru on climate change, kangaroo is what we will all have to eat in a few years. Beef and lamb will be reserved only for the very wealthy in the brave new future he envisages, in which Australia leads the world on tackling climate change. *** If we don’t, he said on Tuesday, releasing his 652-page study on the cost of climate change, “the failure of our generation will haunt humanity until the end of time”. Cue spooky music. *
In Britain theyre trying to get people to eat meat only 2-3 times per week for the same reason.
Hello…are there any ranchers out there in Northern California feeling uneasy about now?
All of this, and so much more, is happening because of hysteria based on an unproven theory…and the control and manipulation is only just beginning.
I hope and pray we’re still the home of the brave. Its going to be a long hard battle to regain the land of the free for our posterity.