Science Activists Trying to turn California into a 3rd World Country - Its already got the AIDs, now it gets everything else

https://arstechnica.com/science/201...nitiative-thats-a-conspiracy-theorists-dream/

California green-lights initiative that is conspiracy theorist’s dream
It would ban chemicals, GMOs, smart meters, reverse vaccine law, end water treatment.

Activists in California can now move forward collecting signatures for an expansive ballot initiative that encompasses a world of non-evidence-based and fringe notions, according to California Secretary of State Alex Padilla.

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The initiative would eliminate vaccination requirements for schools and daycares, banish genetically modified organisms, and prohibit basic water treatments with fluoride and chlorine. The initiative would ban more than 300 chemicals, including fire retardants, and it would order the removal of smart meters. These, the initiative claims, are “neither smart nor meters but intermittent samplers, not accurate, not accountable, [that] emit and receive unnecessary radiation.”
The initiative, dubbed the “California Clean Environment” initiative, will create an elected, three-person board to oversee the sweeping regulations and approve new chemicals. Violations under the initiative would be considered up to felony crimes punishable by fines and prison sentences.

As justification for extensive regulation, the initiative claims that GMOs and unspecified contaminants in the environment, food, and vaccines are causing cancers, autism, Parkinson's, and a slew of other diseases.

“We are trying to restore people’s ability to fight for themselves and decide what they should do,” the initiative’s author, Cheriel Jensen, told Patch.com. “These companies that make the chemicals have taken our right to refuse those chemicals away.”

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The initiative states that “nothing may be introduced into people, commerce, or the environment if it causes or increases the probability of one or more of the following in people, mammals, birds, bees, other beneficial insects, or amphibians.”

This is followed by a long list of conditions and diseases spanning death, cancer, diabetes, and Alzheimer’s. The list also hits allergies, interference with sleep, loss of productivity of the soil, and a die-off of intestinal bacteria.

With the state authorization, Jensen is now clear to start collecting signatures to get the initiative on the ballot this November. She'll need to collect valid signatures from 365,880 registered voters—five percent of the total votes cast for governor in the November 2014 general election—in order to qualify. She has until August 8 to do so.

California already has some of the strictest environmental measures in the country, and the state has previously rejected even labeling GMOs in foods. Still, the initiative may find a foothold with the anti-vaccine and vaccine-hesitant crowd. In 2016, California implemented a law that clamped down on personal belief exemptions for required vaccines in school-aged children, which riled opponents. Many have vowed to overturn the law, which this initiative would do, among many other things.

An initial assessment by California’s Legislative Analyst's Office and Department of Finance determined that, if the measure passes, it would “result in a substantial net change in state and local finances.”

I can't even begin to describe the disaster this would be. Epidemics, water-born illness, massive tooth decay, barring of healthy foods.....it's like Alex Jones got himself an initiative to sign. The fucking stupidity of these people never ceases to amaze me. They want to remove water treatment. Holy shit. I wouldn't be surprised if the ulterior motive was because these things were invented by the 'white man'.

Though I say do it. Especially if isolated to San Francisco. Let those rich fuckers see what its like to live in a real shithole.

 

[LocalFireDept]

I doubt this will pass

EDIT: It's not even on the ballot yet. This is just in consideration

EDIT 2: This has only just now gotten permission to collect signatures. OP is a click baiting faggot

EDIT 3: Read the fucking article you apes. It's not only not on the ballot, it's barely just started the process of collecting signatures. Maybe you guys should do more than read the title before you start going "LE CALIFORNIA IS DEAD XDD" comments you double niggers

lol calm down

 

[Dirt McGirt]

I doubt this will pass

EDIT: It's not even on the ballot yet. This is just in consideration

EDIT 2: This has only just now gotten permission to collect signatures. OP is a click baiting faggot

EDIT 3: Read the fucking article you apes. It's not only not on the ballot, it's barely just started the process of collecting signatures. Maybe you guys should do more than read the title before you start going "LE CALIFORNIA IS DEAD XDD" comments you double niggers

So... is California getting better?

 

[Sailor_Jupiter]

Good thing they already got started on getting rid of all that dangerous dihydrogen monoxide in California.

When will the dihydrogen monoxide menace end? I almost drowned in some once. It's no joke.

 

[Draza]

Idiocracy was meant to be a movie.

 

[AssRapistDude1488]

This is the same State that banned Plastic Shopping Bags and then held up that law in a referendum. Tell Californians something is "Progressive" and they'll pass it in a heartbeat. The only consolation is that, judging by badly the State is falling apart, Reality takes a dimmer view of California's virtue signaling.

They banned complimentary shopping bags. It is now ten cents per bag. In general if you see something in the news that is implausible it is best not to take it at face value even if it confirms your preconceptions.

 

[Marvin]

They banned complimentary shopping bags. It is now ten cents per bag. In general if you see something in the news that is implausible it is best not to take it at face value even especially if it confirms your preconceptions.

Fixed.

 

[HY 140]

just add Ebola and now its a 3rd world country

 

[Funnybone]

They should at least airlift Disneyland to like, Nevada or something before they do this.

 

[Some JERK]

They should at least airlift Disneyland to like, Nevada or something before they do this.

There's already a Disneyland in Nevada... with blackjack... and hookers.

 

[Funnybone]

There's already a Disneyland in Nevada... with blackjack... and hookers.

What if we replaced Cesars Palace with Disneyland (by dumping it ontop of it) and then enhanced it with blackjack and hookers

 

[Dirt McGirt]

What if we replaced Cesars Palace with Disneyland (by dumping it ontop of it) and then enhanced it with blackjack and hookers

Would the hookers be dressed like Disney Princesses? There's plenty of fetishists out there that would shell out good money for that.

 

[UptownRuckus]

Maybe I'll finally move if this happens

 

[The Demon]

I doubt this will pass

EDIT: It's not even on the ballot yet. This is just in consideration

EDIT 2: This has only just now gotten permission to collect signatures. OP is a click baiting faggot

EDIT 3: Read the fucking article you apes. It's not only not on the ballot, it's barely just started the process of collecting signatures. Maybe you guys should do more than read the title before you start going "LE CALIFORNIA IS DEAD XDD" comments you double niggers

thank god. i was about to freak out

edit: so basically, it's just the news trying to bring attention to this but not actually clarifying that it's not being considered yet, which i'm guessing is just them trying to get clicks

 

[A Welsh Cake]

I thought Cali was already 3rd world?

 

[Pop pop fizz fizz]

Oh goody.
Ban vaccines while at the same time allowing in disease carrying Third Worlders... what ever could go wrong?

Cholera, Tuberculosis & Polio, but it's okay because it's the Progressive way!

Wall It Off.

 

[The Demon]

Oh goody.
Ban vaccines while at the same time allowing in disease carrying Third Worlders... what ever could go wrong?

Cholera, Tuberculosis & Polio, but it's okay because it's the Progressive way!

Wall It Off.

oh shit, canada is already globalized!

 

[SPARKLETWAT]

California is shit.

 

[Flying_with_the_Penguins]

I genuinely believe that California will the next "rust belt" of America in 20 to 30 years. Here's my reasoning with additional sources if you wish to read up further:

-Hollywood is slowly collapsing due to the rise of new media and the decentralization of entertainment.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/06/hollywood-has-a-huge-millennial-problem/486209/
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...lion-stock-collapse-hollywood-s-picture-blurs

-SanFran-based Big Tech is becoming less relevant (Facebook and Google have peaked in popularity and are now showing signs of a gradual decline, facebook especially so), and most new companies are moving elsewhere to places like Washington and North Carolina to avoid high taxes, as well as a brain drain with skilled workers themselves who don't want to pay the absurdly high cost of living.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/joelko...obs-are-far-from-silicon-valley/#58cc7ee7bed1
https://mashable.com/2017/12/06/why-they-leave-san-francisco-silicon-valley/

-Water shortages are affecting the states agricultural output, specifically in the Central Valley which is already heavily irrigated. Also don't give the whole "it rained last year therefore the drought is over" shtick, because that's not how long-term trends work and its an argument ironically used most frequently by climate change deniers.
http://www.slate.com/articles/techn...ulture_drought_and_climate_change_photos.html
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...entral-valley-sinking-farmers-deepwater-wells

-Tourism is being negatively affected by increasing forest fires amongst other factors. Higher-frequency forest fires in the future will likely cause long term decline overall. Also lets not forget a huge pull factor for tourism is hollywood itself.
https://www.usnews.com/news/us/arti...fires-threaten-wine-country-tourism-lifeblood
http://napavalleyregister.com/news/...cle_8dc39b7d-0f3c-52b4-8a22-6014ef28de98.html

All this paints a pretty grim picture in my opinion. What happens when these industries grind to a halt/move elsewhere? Who exactly does the government turn to revenue for then? Good luck hiking the taxes on the poor Mexican farmers and expecting them to not move elsewhere. Hell, a lot of them have moved to Texas and have already had better success due to a friendlier business climate (https://www.dallasnews.com/opinion/...nics-the-lone-star-state-beats-the-golden-one). Yes, surprisingly enough, theres not much dignity to living life on government welfare and most people regardless of race/ethnicity would rather work for themselves than be given state handouts. Only they can't make a living for themselves in California due to the state's anti-business policies, so good luck getting them to foot the bill once you lose everything else.

TLR: California is fucked.

 

[DICKPICSRUS]

Hey Kim where's the nukes at

 

[Slap47]

The board to oversee all of this nonsense will be elected? Why can't these positions just have esteemed people with degree requirements filling them?

California is shit.

It's ruling liberal middle-class is embodiment of sjwism/neoliberalism.

They forcibly bus out homeless people instead of dealing with their own people and go batshit crazy on all social issues aside from those actually help poor people. They preach about the environment but have very poor public transit and dump raw sewage in the ocean. They preach about diversity but basically have segregation through economics and claim to be smarter than those "rednecks" while leading the charge on the same stupid trends that they criticize poor southern whites for. They'll be the first to talk about how awful it is to have a celebrity president but almost certainly talk fondly of that corrupt Idiot Arnold.