As goes California, so goes America," was once an bankable bellwether axiom. Does it still hold the promise and sting of truth? The end of the run for Manifest Destiny landed in the Land of Milk and Honey with the culmination of the ideals of The Enlightenment and the best of The West. Now a land and a Malthused browned down people in an exponential free fall collapse. VDH lays out a warning from atop a mighty Redwood parapet subsumed with flame and flotsam