Governor of California, Pass the torch ...

 I have begun a number of campaign kick-off speeches in my journals, with a number of approaches,
as to why I raise my hand and volunteer for the job. I have not completed the task of writing, the one.

 Life, Liberty and Happiness!
 Get the Broom!
 Protect what you love!
 Positive change (for a change)
 Pass the Torch!

 Pass the torch. The commandment that thousands of years of human life has been all about.
Because there are children. They are ours. The natural environment that is ours. We have a duty
to not give up to cynicism and a duty recognize the need of some fundamental shift in our
Civilization's direction. Not just seeing the need as in recognizing the present reality as being ...
unsustainable, but in seeing a path forward clearly available to us. 

  95 Million Barrels of Oil a day required for you and I to fuel our self destruction?
  A 25% increase needed in Green Energy sources if we were to transition our automobile
 driven lifestyles from Carbon burning to non-carbon.
 An Exxon Valdez spill every year in the amount of Crude Oil spilled in our Oceans by Sea transport
of goods.
 1000 Cargo containers a year topple into the sea.
 etc... 3,000 square miles a year in USA given up to development.

I can find more grim facts but let's leave that and admit that we are in a very real bind, until we stand up and acknowledge that this bind is no-good, then we are simply not doing our children good. 

 We can do this. The unpleasant anxiety that you and I everyone of us experience daily is partly because
we know that the change must come but we can't see how. Business as usual is not the path forward.
California 'Roaring Back'  as Governor Newsom optimistically declares sounds .... Blind to me. 

   A path creative, and responsive, bold and rebellious is needed. It can be done. It will be done.