Anyway, I think that the US in general, and I hope California, is pursuing a successful path followed by some bacteria who find themselves in trouble because their environmental conditions change: loss of food, accumulation of wastes, drying, etc.  The bacterium sequesters vital resources within an endospore which is very hearty (endospores are one of the problems in the canning industry), the rest of the bacterium dies away, and the endospore sprouts once the environment improves. The wealthy are currently following this model and I hope the state of CA will also. Europe Is Doomed?  Hell, the US really is.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.