California is now and always has been a desert. There was never a time when California was not a desert.
The coming of too many people to overuse the supply of imported water has created unsustainable urban sprawl. The weather of sunshine and no rain is the reason there is desert. Sunshine and no rain produces desert. Desert with mega population is doomed
Amazing how that ‘desert’ manages to feed America.
-—BUTTT this cannot b!!!!- the ice caps are melting, the
oceans are rising, shorelines will disappear. The answer is
before us-—desalinization(?)!!! Git r dun!!
“California” is not a desert. California is a huge state that encompass a multitude of different climatic conditions, from Mediterranean to subarctic. Most of the people here live in the southern coastal areas, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. This stretch is no more desert that Italy or Greece is. To the east, the Mojave Desert is obviously as dry as the Sahara but you want to tell me Yosemite is a desert? I don’t think so.
The population was exceeded the area’s ability to sustain the number of people here with the available water found locally, that’s true, but it’s not because the state is a desert.
Eighty percent of California's water use is agricultural. Almond trees alone use three times more water than all of Los Angeles.