Except of course, it's not negative to the tune of $21B. Any more than California diverting half its rainwater to the ocean was either environmentally or econo

Except of course, it's not negative to the tune of $21B. Any more than California diverting half its rainwater to the ocean was either environmentally or economically useful to its ecosystem. This is the same state where a good 70% of the population was under the delusion its state government could competently produce a train from North to South _and_ that they actually wanted to do so for altruistic reasons unrelated to buying off that critical missing piece of the legislature for supermajority budget power. This is the same state whose very non-unique ecosystem plagues it with wildfires because they have no forest management. The same state whose governor and highest ranking elected officials graduated from a city that can't figure out how to keep homeless people from dying on the street in droves. California, and especially its "expert" class, is a political construction. It's amazing that after 50 years of chronic failure and a tax base solely built around capital gains and rent extraction from their two-tiered feudal economic sector that anyone trusts anything that comes out of California. It's delusional. If people's status wasn't so tied into this dream and idea of California progress, everyone could see it for what it truly is.