The city urges surrounding municipalities and the state of California to buy into its hysteria and to impose harsh regulations that will affect energy, building, the electricity grid and transportation.

The California city that was home to 1960s radicals and known for excessively liberal politics declared a "climate emergency" on Tuesday evening, backing policies to "humanely stabilize" the human population.

The Berkeley City Council unanimously voted to mobilize other California governments "to initiate a just local, state, national, and global climate emergency mobilization to restore a safe climate."