Do you like living in the suburbs? Well, you might as well go to hell, because your Democrat overlords — using global warming as their cudgel — mean to kill off new suburbs.

Will Californians drive less to reduce global warming? Maybe not on our own — but state officials are ready to nudge us.

Nudge = boss us around.

The Legislature is on the verge of adopting the nation’s first law to control planet-warming gases by curbing sprawl. The bill, sponsored by incoming state Senate leader Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), is expected to pass the Assembly today and the Senate on Friday.

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has not taken a position on the bill, but sponsors expect him to sign it once the state passes a budget.

Man-made global warming is a godsend to busybodies and know-it-alls (liberals), which is why they invented it.

An earlier version of the bill was blocked last year by the building industry and by organizations representing cities and counties.

 Aka, the people.

Developers feared their suburban projects would be delayed or halted. Local officials were wary of ceding zoning powers and transportation planning to the state.

In other words, they resisted a state power grab.

But momentum for the legislation has grown as the state seeks to implement its landmark 2006 global warming law, which would slash California’s greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020, a 30% cut from expected emissions. To accomplish that, state officials say, fuel-efficient cars and factories won’t be enough. Subdivisions, commercial centers and highways must be planned so that Californians can live and work closer together, reducing the amount they drive.

“Our communities must change the way they grow,” Steinberg said.

Hear that? You must!

All this is sickening given the way liberal Democrats have behaved in the past. Ten years ago, this same bunch killed a planned community in Ventura County, the Ahmanson Ranch.

AR was everything libs ask for: a 3,000 home mixed-use community planned so that residents would have shopping and work opportunities right on site. It set aside vast acres of open space. But local LA County NIMBY’s enlisted self-righteous nitwits such as Rob Reiner and even Al Gore to lobby its demise.

In the ten-plus years AR was litigated, adjoining communities in LA County, such as Calabasas, built 3,000 houses, a few here, a few there. No urban planning. No mitigating traffic. Nothing.

Pompous hypocrites.