Posted on 03/04/2017 8:44:51 AM PST by WayneLusvardi
“Denial ain’t just a river in Egypt” – Mark Twain
“Consider a narrow river valley below a high dam, such that if the dam burst, the resulting flood of water would drown people for a considerable distance downstream. When attitude pollsters ask people downstream of the dam how concerned they are about the dam’s bursting, it’s not surprising that fear of a dam burst is lowest far downstream, and increases among residents increasingly close to the dam.
Surprisingly, though … the concern falls off to zero as you approach closer to the dam! That is, the people living immediately under the dam, the ones most certain to be drowned in a dam burst, profess unconcern. That’s because of psychological denial: the only way to preserve one’s sanity while looking up everyday at the dam is to deny the possibility that it could burst.”
– Jared Diamond, “Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail or Succeed”
“Seems it never rains in Southern California / Seems I’ve often heard that kind of talk before / It never rains in California, but girl don’t they warn ya? / It pours, man, it pours” – Song lyrics by Albert Hammond, 1972.
The recent near catastrophic failure of the spillways at Oroville Dam in California is more than a story of unpreventable “stuff happens”, as explained by Gov. Jerry Brown. To the contrary, Oroville is an apt metaphor and symbol for California government that continues to be in denial about its dysfunctional water and energy infrastructure policies and priorities.
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“We” voted to keep chugging away on the high speed train two years ago (before the water). We can vote to kill it if the dems in Sacto don’t get off the pot. We have the 14 most in need of repair dams in the county try and all Sacto cares about is stupid laws to hurt business, raising taxes and getting more illegals into the state to rape, rob, and kill citizens. The trouble is “us.” We keep electing these people.
We recently voted to let inmates out early and now come is on the increase. It’s not Browns fault. Brown is Brown. The fault is “ours.” We let Brown be Brown.
Nuclear power driven desalinization with electrical generation is a do-able technology . . .
No doubt on my part. The local pop. just needs to pay full freight.
I thought it was a river in Egypt.
Can’t build a dam now while it is raining and flooding. When it stops why then, well, don’t need it then.
There are several upstream dams and they are at 100% capacity.
I thought so but couldn’t readily find info on that. THX
Thanks. Talk about “denial” with Krakatoa in his backyard no less.
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