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Climate Inaction Threatens Grandchildren’s Future

By John Schaefer

newsroom@northcoastjournal.com

Recent evidence reveals that California has surrendered to the climate crisis, so prospects for our grandchildren’s future look grim. For example, this year the Assembly and state Senate passed no e ective climate legislation.

Lawmakers ignored climate’s e ect on wildfi res, fl oods, drought and soaring temperatures. Worldwide temperatures are now 1.2 degrees Celsius above historic levels, headed for 3.6 degrees by 2100. Given damage already apparent, imagine year 2100 at 3.6 degrees.

It’s not that lawmakers don’t know. Sen. Mike McGuire’s Senate Concurrent Resolution 53 declares, “The climate emergency threatens the state, the nation, the planet, the natural world, and all of humanity.” Fifteen cosponsors — unfortunately only 15 — have joined this declaration, but its mere words don’t do anything to arrest the emergency.

There have been fi res here long before it was California, but it’s only with the climate crisis they’ve grown to be such confl agrations.

Another ine ective bill, Senate Bill 884, supports PG&E to underground its distribution lines, but does nothing to slow confl agrations. PG&E’s plan also ignores how other utilities have insulated overhead lines cheaper and faster. So this bill may reduce fi res that PG&E starts, but it won’t do anything to help confl agrations.

At the heart of the climate crisis are carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels like gasoline and natural gas.

Climate solutions are multifaceted. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says that to keep temperatures below disastrous levels, we need to take all possible actions. Which actions? IPCC results are complex, but the Massachusetts Institute of Technology o ers a more accessible, online model called En-ROADS (www.en-roads.climateinteractive.org/scenario.html?v=22.5.1). Anyone can test solutions and users fi nd that one indispensable component of success is a high price on carbon dioxide pollution.

Wind and solar are already cheaper than fossil-powered electricity. So why isn’t California using more? Partly, it’s because NIMBYs oppose solar and wind power, and partly it’s because utilities don’t make enough money on solar and wind.

Sadly, government also colludes with corporations and crisis supporters. Rooftop solar has arguably been America’s most successful program, but the Public Utilities Commission’s plan to block it assures California can’t meet its climate goals. Claiming falsely that poor people subsidize rich owners of solar roofs, PG&E