Governor Gavin Newsom of California is being praised as a “hero“ by CNN‘s Douglas Brinkley for suggesting that all cars running on fossil fuels should be gone within the next 12 years. Brinkley is worried that Americans aren‘t enthusiastic about this kind of policy. He believes that if people take the right steps, it could even impact the weather.
Brinkley ranted saying, “Until the public talks about climate change as being the issue — we had a midterm election and it’s ranked number five or something — until we’re demanding it of our public servants, we’re going to be in these kind of weird climate events one after the other, wondering what to do, and kicking the can down the road.”
Brinkley naively applauded the California Governor for a ban on internal combustion vehicles starting in 2035: “The hero, Jake, right now in my mind is California, under Gavin Newsom and others. By 2035, they’re not going to be selling, you know, vehicles that are run on fossil fuels….”
Newsom is number one, for sure, but it has nothing to do with his ‘climate agenda’. Under his leadership, California has descended further into madness with crime hitting new highs. Not to mention the state’s homeless issue and outrageous inflation.
Partial Transcript:
I write about the first Earth Day in 1970, and it was musicians like Marvin Gaye writing “mercy me, the ecology,” and Andy Warhol ended up doing the series of endangered species, the great painter Robert Rosenberg did the poster, and grassroots organization were saying “We want clean air. We want the lead out of gasoline. We want no more smog causing respiratory illness in Los Angeles and New York. We want the Great Lakes clean that we can catch fish there again. We don’t want rivers like the Cuyahoga of Ohio or the Rouge in Michigan on fire.” It was the people demanding it.
Until the public talks about climate change as being the issue — we had a midterm election and it’s ranked number five or something — until we’re demanding it of our public servants, we’re going to be in these kind of weird climate events one after the other, wondering what to do, and kicking the can down the road.
The hero, Jake, right now in my mind is California, under Gavin Newsom and others. By 2035, they’re not going to be selling, you know, vehicles that are run on fossil fuels, and our post office is starting to go to electric vehicles. So the movement’s there, but we’ve got to have a Rachel Carson-like figure, somebody who leads us into the promised land of a cleaner and safer, healthier tomorrow, and make sure we don’t have species vanishing willy-nilly on our life watch.