California Must Triple Rate of Carbon Emissions Reductions to Reach 2030 Target (opens in new tab)

And before someone chimes in on that hurting poor people, California could use those taxes to redistribute cash to poorer people.

But the goal is not to actually reduce emissions, it is to say they are trying to while not really reducing quality of life (i.e. making sacrifices, especially amongst the richer half). And in the process, create tons of avenues for corruption and bureaucracy to suck productivity out of society.

We want to pretend like we do stuff for the environment or future generations, but we still want that detached single family 2.5k sq ft house, and the SUVs, and the tropical vacations. And, of course, it is going to be a hard sell to get a small portion of the world’s population to do that if everyone else is not.

Imo, CA is more interested in appearing to be progressive than actually being progressive, i.e. making laws that treat the symptoms instead of the root cause and as a result ended up making things worse. Prop 13, "anti-discrimination" laws, tough laws against gas cars, etc. Those backfired and instead of repealing and fixing them, they moved on to making more laws to add on an already gigantic clusterfuck.

It is hard to make real progress. It is so much easier to mess up and never admit to it.

Removing those schemes will make people install batteries instead, which will have a bigger impact on co2 reductions