California

Like many things, regulation trails technology.

Sometimes methods are to find a path around or to otherwise coopt regulation.

Currently a pessimist about proposed solutions to the environmental and energy crisis because see deeper holes for humanity where major population and human footprint reduction is only realistic solution. The population reduction will occur; how cruel, when, who and how extensive is still in question.

Prestige and fortune can be made in the present on dead end solutions.

War and manufacture of arms is the opposite of addressing the crisis.