Posted on 04/19/2015 6:43:42 AM PDT by amnestynone
California has met the future, and it really doesn’t work. As the mounting panic surrounding the drought suggests, the Golden State, once renowned for meeting human and geographic challenges, is losing its ability to cope with crises. As a result, the great American land of opportunity is devolving into something that resembles feudalism, a society dominated by rich and poor, with little opportunity for upward mobility for the state’s middle- and working classes.
The water situation reflects this breakdown in the starkest way. Everyone who follows California knew it was inevitable we would suffer a long-term drought. Most of the state—including the Bay Area as well as greater Los Angeles—is semi-arid, and could barely support more than a tiny fraction of its current population. California’s response to aridity has always been primarily an engineering one that followed the old Roman model of siphoning water from the high country to service cities and farms.
“The environmentalists will have concerns over the effect of dumping the salt back into the ocean on marine life (maybe a good point), so committees will be formed and studies will be funded.”
Brine released in deep ocean waters has a miniscule effect.
That is the problem here in NJ as well; Christie can only do so much (and he at least stabilized the tax situation, resulting in a lot of layoffs of public employees we can’t afford), but it will take a long time to make up the lost ground.
Look at what Obama has wrought in seven years (and I don’t think we’ll recover from most of it).
And you’ll well remember for a time at the end of Flim Flam Florio’s term and for part of Whitman’s, the GOP had huge legislative majorities in Trenton, only to piss it all away.
“And you’ll well remember for a time at the end of Flim Flam Florio’s term and for part of Whitman’s, the GOP had huge legislative majorities in Trenton, only to piss it all away.”
Yuhp, somehow big business gets taken care of. after that there is either no desire or any political capitol left to take care of us.
Yes, too many RINOs here; Christie is an ultra-conservative by comparison (he has all the right leftist enemies).
Wow.
Last year the rainfall was much less than this year. Northern CA got just a bit less than average this year. The Central valley and the south didn’t fare as well, still they got more than last year.
California is a beautiful state with unbeatable weather (near the coast) and the diversity of scenery is unmatched. As bad as the politics are, it is hard to leave it.
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