The city’s Green Building Requirements also mandate solar
panels and EV chargers for all new homes as well as other, equally ridiculous, conditions
for construction.
All the cool kids have already installed solar panels and
brag about how their electric bills are close to zero. They ignore that it will
be twenty years before they break even on the cost, or that at the end of that
time they will need to install new panels, and the old will be buried in landfill to contaminate the earth.
Should I point out the volumes of evidence proving that
their Planet Saving efforts are, in fact, more harmful to the earth than fossil
fuels, I am ignored. What about all the rare earth mineral mining involving child
and slave labor in deplorable conditions? Or the slave camps that produce those
lovely solar panels in China? How about the Bald Eagles and many other birds
that are being slaughtered daily by wind turbines? And how, I ask, are all
those delightful Green Technologies recycled?
It is simply impossible to even discuss the matter. They are
right. I am wrong. No conversation to be had.
Berkeley has always led the way in progressive city laws to
control the people. There is the Soda Tax and the ban on cigarette sales, to
name a few. With all those health measures one would presume that it is a city
filled with healthy, happy people. It is not.
From the huge population of homeless, drug-addicted, mentally ill individuals camped throughout the city, to the obese children and adults waddling down the streets, it is not a pretty sight.
But thank goodness they can't buy cigarettes and have to pay a tax on their Coca-Colas.
