Key Points
Never mind that one in every eight Americans still lives in Californiaa population larger than 21 other US states combinedand that its economic output is bigger than any entire non-US country except China, Japan, or Germany, and that its the birthplace of an disproportionate share of the worlds most familiar and valuable brand names..
As a Californian who has spent most of his life in other parts of the United States, and as an American who has lived for more than a dozen years in other parts of the world, Ive often been struck by the ways declinist alarmism about my home state can feel like a displaced version of declinist alarmism about my home country as a whole...
Long before Newsoms arrival as governor, Californialike most stateshad a variety of public service and volunteer programs under the CalVolunteers label, many of them in partnership with the nationwide AmeriCorps system..
Half a dozen governors have started projects similar to Californias climate corps and college corps in their states: Vermont, Minnesota, New Mexico, Colorado, Iowa, and more, with Republican-led Utah probably next on the list..
He said that the International Union for Conservation of Nature, a leading worldwide sustainability organization, has modeled conservation programs for the globe on what California has done.. Californias high-speed rail ambition is infrastructure in its most tangible sense..
