The recent California Democratic Party convention in San Francisco exposed the divide between the state’s progressive and working-class voters. Progressives, in their militant certitude, support left-wing policies that often don’t affect them; it’s the working class that suffers the consequences of these proposals. But the Green New Deal, widely embraced by party leaders, pushed too far, triggering a backlash at the convention. The state’s private-sector labor unions, notably the building trades, organized a “Blue Collar Revolution” protest against the Democrats’ climate legislation.

From City Journal, one of my new regulars.

The Cal legislature has one basic rule, the legislatures and their list of politically select exemptions always come first with the inflation adjustments.  Working in the private sector, you get no price controls. The effect is to increase the amount of CO2 pollution, not decrease it, as most economists now admit, privately.

The most egregious case is what the progressives did to PGE. The legislatures let the Sierra Club set the tree trimming limits to low, and forced PGE out of the energy business and into the redistribution business. Result, massive CO2 pollution from forest fires.  Sierra Club and the Cal legislatures are wholly to blame, and both subject to CO2 tort damages.  But, guess what? The Sierra Club and the Cal legislatures are immune from CO2 pollution tort!

It is an effect all the way through the system, dumb shit legislatures cause CO2 pollution, it is now fact. The best solution is to rebel against taxes in California, for no other reason than to protect the planet.