California

It's the nature of people to avoid making really big, difficult changes until they're forced on us. But, in this case, we really outdid ourselves.

In 1965 LBJ sent warning to congress to spark action. The "action" sparked was mostly conservatives/business committing to blocking all types of action. In the early 1970s my college physiology teacher told us what would happen if we didn't act, and it's happening. By the end of the 1970s, conservatives had come to dominate public policy, and culture, in the U.S. and other nations. It seems now like a perfect storm of human dysfunctions coming together and overwhelming all that sensible people did manage to do and would have done.

It helps me to read what sensible, committed people, businesses, and governments all around the globe, including CA's ag industry, are working on now that denial and delay have run their course. Many brilliant people are working on a vast range of approaches to a vast range of problems. Too late, gone, late, not too late. Many of the ideas and new technology are inspiring and promising new changes in themselves, and as I said, it helps me to connect a bit with their worlds.