This may seem silly to some but,,, Turn the damn water off while you’re brushing your teeth. (Or tooth if you live in Tennessee). We humans waste water almost every time we do a function that requires it. Our water sensors on our sprinkler system at our condo is trash. When it rains I go to each controller and physically turn off the zones. There are 4 of them. Showers don’t need to knock you down when you turn them on. (My wife thinks otherwise). There’s this saying,,, you don’t get thirsty til the well runs dry. Cali is an example of kicking the can down the road.
Just got back from a road trip and went to California. What they SHOULD do is what Vegas does. No body has lawns with bushes. People in S. Cal in particular want to live like they are in Miami with plenty of tropical rain. They don't. Save the water for agriculture which the rest of the country depends on and get rid of your grass and flowers (including golf courses).
I think that the alfalfa is grown more in central California than southern California, where all the nuts, fruits and vegetables are grown. The rivers run from the ENE to the WSW in that area. It would be very expensive to send water by pipeline from central California to the southern parts (the state is 800 miles from north to south). Cattle ranching occurs in the central part of the state, along with alfalfa growing. The excess alfalfa is sent to China because (a) China wants it, and (b) the shipping is free, since shipping containers need to be sent back to China for all the things we buy from them.
Why? Most voters are old and already got theirs. Young people are lazy and dumb to them. Just work it out, like they did!
More and more have understood as evidenced by the influx of Californians to North Carolina and Florida. We are so involved in the here and now that it’s difficult to step back and see what’s happening to our planet, both because of natural fluctuations and human activity. We have lived in the best of times….up until now. Our children and grandchildren are going to have a much tougher time of it. The sad, and maddening, thing is we saw much of this coming 50 years ago, but ignored it, and I’m just as guilty as the next person.
If your quote at the bottom is accurate, King Lear saw it coming 500 years ago. Although, I have to admit that I have difficulty figuring exactly what Shakespeare is talking about. But I think the "gold-plated sin" is clearly talking about Donald Trump's toilet and, by extension, his disregard for Global Warming.
In today's American vernacular, it's saying that the rich and powerful are above the law. However, your interpretation would have earned you a solid "B" for out of the box creativity in a Shakespeare class.
I hear you, but the map you showed has four out of five of the leading counties in alfalfa production in central California (although Kern County is on the border of central and southern California).
I’ve often wondered how long before poisoning of a water source will be part of a military action during a war.
Yep, that veneer of "civilization" is very thin. Strip that away due to a crisis or a lack of the basics (food, water etc) and things get ugly rapidly. We are essentially the same savages we always were, only now our "clubs" are far more lethal.
