JERRY BROWN: THE PEASANTS ARE REVOLTING! Jerry Brown Blasts ‘Rural Areas’ for Not Liking Gas Tax That Disproportionately Harms Them.

He credited Californians with understanding that the high taxes and spending are “helping their community.” He admitted that they need more public transportation, however.

“We need more rapid transit. We need trains and we need more efficient cars and we need all of that, and that’s why this climate change is not just adapting, it’s inventing new technology,” he said.

He said Americans have the wrong idea about how to respond to Chinese technology, and then compared fighting climate change to World War II.

“I would point to the fact that it took [President Franklin D.] Roosevelt many, many years to get America willing to go into World War II and fight the Nazis,” Brown said. “We have an enemy and perhaps very much devastating in a similar way and we have to fight climate change and the president has got to lead on that.”

Global warming as the moral equivalent of WWII? How new and original a thought!