While myself and most readers of this blog have complete support for conservation of wildlife and environmental conservation for their own sakes, the need to virtue signal from others still tends to make their, even positive efforts, quite laughable.
THIS JUST IN … GOVERNOR NEWSOM LAUNCHES INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES TO USE CALIFORNIA LAND TO FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE, CONSERVE BIODIVERSITY AND BOOST CLIMATE RESILIENCE
Maven October 7, 2020
From the Office of the Governor:
Harnessing the innovative spirit of California, Governor Gavin Newsom today advanced an executive order enlisting California’s vast network of natural and working lands – forests, rangelands, farms, wetlands, coast, deserts and urban greenspaces – in the fight against climate change. A core pillar of Governor Newsom’s climate agenda, these novel approaches will help clean the air and water for communities throughout the state and support California’s unique biodiversity.
“Once again, California is taking on the mantle of global climate leadership and advancing bold strategies to fight climate change,” said Governor Newsom. “The science is clear that, in our existential fight against climate change, we must build on our historic efforts in energy and emissions and focus on our lands as well. California’s beautiful natural and working lands are an important tool to help slow and avert catastrophic climate change, and today’s executive order provides important new tools to take on this existential threat.”
The order directs state agencies to deploy a number of strategies to store carbon in the state’s natural and working lands and remove it from the atmosphere. The order also sets a first-in-the-nation goal to conserve 30 percent of the state’s land and coastal water by 2030 to fight species loss and ecosystem destruction.
Specifically, state agencies are directed to pursue innovative actions, strategies and partnerships to maximize the full climate benefits of our natural and working land, through:
- Healthy soils management, including planting cover crops, hedgerows and compost applications;
- Wetlands restoration to protect coastal areas;
- Active forest management to reduce catastrophic risk and restore forest health; and
- Boosting green infrastructure in urban areas like trees and parks.
The text of the order can be found here.
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As the Bugster would say, what a maroon!
Plant a tree–jugheads!
Governor Newsom’s issuance of this newest EO, just like his previous one banning the sale of ICE vehicles in California after 2035, reminds me so much of the phrase Pharaoh speaks in the movie The Ten Commandments: “So let it be written. So let it be done.”
(see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4emcNAf5lY )
How many California state employees does it take to plant a tree and screw in a light bulb?
Memo to staff: They left out “world class leadership” and “state of the art leadership” in the chest beating. Better fix this next time.
This is the California equivalent of the military parade in North Korea and Moscow. In this case it’s a parade of goose stepping advocacy groups.
There is no mention here of how many asphalt parking lots the state owns and any review of “good planning” practices on the number of parking spaces required for building permits.
Another hint: If retail space is overbuilt by 2x in the post-pandemic eCommerce era, then we are baking urban areas with excess parking lots. Look around for a change.
“Active forest management to reduce catastrophic risk”
Bingo! This is the poker player’s ‘tell’. Everything else is distraction. Gavin doesn’t want to admit he’s taking cues from Trump re cleaning out the forests. His presser a few weeks ago was a confused mumble and vague apology but hidden in the message was …yeah we have to do something about wildfires .. with nothing to scare the greenies.
Gavin Noisome should be looking to “small modular reactor” nuclear power units (SMRs). Like the UK seem to be doing:
https://tallbloke.wordpress.com/2020/10/10/2bn-fund-earmarked-for-16-mini-nuclear-power-stations/
It would appear that in the UK at least, SMRs made by Rolls Royce are the future of nuclear. Ten times cheaper than the traditional big GW plants. That could explain why the UK government allowed the Wylfa-Hitachi project to die. It was shaping up to become another costly black hole like Hinckley Point C.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54175280
“Virtue, why are you signal” ?????
That headline makes no sense at all.
The power of virtue signaling is on full display here, even in the midst of a pandemic.
Call it The Walking Dead: Season of the Virtue Signalers.
In fairness to Newsom, at least he has acknowledged the need for forest management and fuel load reduction.
Jerry Brown remained in perpetual denial and sought to blame everything on climate change.
Everywhere you see the words “working lands,” replace it with the words “privately owned farms and ranches.”
The beauty of social democracy is you get to exercise all the power and the poor guy doing all the work suffers the consequences of your stupidity.