Up until now, the Golden State, like most states and the rest of the world, only allowed for the burial or burning of deceased human remains. Now, there is the option of turning dead people into fertilizer for soil.

Assembly Bill 351 explicitly allows for "natural organic reduction" (NOR), as they are calling it, beginning in 2027. Until then, dead bodies in California will still have to be either buried or cremated.

The NOR process involves putting human remains into a reusable container and surrounding it with wood chips, allowing it to aerate for microbial and bacterial growth. After about a month, all that is left is "soil."

As usual, the excuse for needing to turn deceased humans into Soylent Green is that the planet, plagued by "warming," we are told, is harmed by burial and cremation.

"Unlike cremation, the process avoids the burning of fossil fuels and emission of carbon monoxide," claims the San Francisco Gate. "National Geographic estimates that cremations in the U.S. alone emit about 360,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide a year."