Government is trying like hell to kill farming. I drove through the inner valley of California, the state government caused water shortage has the farmers grinding up almond trees for mulch. Thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of acres of them... Add that to burning corn as fuel as mandated by fed.gov and you have a disaster brewing...
Government is trying like hell to kill farming. I drove through the inner valley of California, the state government caused water shortage has the farmers grinding up almond trees for mulch. Thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of acres of them... Add that to burning corn as fuel as mandated by fed.gov and you have a disaster brewing...
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The USA succeeds despite the incredible incompetence of government. Last time I lived in California was in the 1960’s when Jerry Brown’s father Pat was governor. He like all California governors before him understood the importance of water. They built the whole complicated water works system in California.
But later generations forgot about the primacy of water to California. Its a shame. Likely things will get worse there before they get better. But they will get better in a decade or two when the price of desalination collapses and all the coastal cities draw their water from the ocean —leaving the inland water works with all the water they need from the mountains.
This is something that will happen. But you wouldn’t want to hold your breath waiting for it to happen.