A Tale of Four Droughts

[Geee]

PJ Media:

California is not suffering one drought, but four. Each is a metaphor of what California has become.

 

Nature

 

The first California drought, of course, is natural. We are now in the midst of a fourth year of record low levels of snow and rain.

 

Californians have no idea that their state is a relatively recent construct — only 165 years old, with even less of a pedigree of accurate weather keeping. When Europeans arrived in California in the 15th and 16th centuries, they were struck by how few indigenous peoples lived in what seemed paradise — only to learn that the region was quite dry on the coast and in the interior.

 

Today, modern Californians have no idea of whether a four-year drought is normal, in, say, a 5,000 natural history of the region, or is aberrant — as wet years are long overdue and will return with a vengeance. That we claim to know what to expect from about 150 years of recordkeeping does not mean that we know anything about what is normal in nature’s brief millennia. Our generation may be oblivious to that fact, but our far more astute and pragmatic forefathers certainly were not.

 

Hubris

 

If one studies the literature on the history and agendas of the California State Water Project and the federal Central Valley Project, two observations are clear. One, our ancestors brilliantly understood that Californians always would wish to work and live in the center and south of the state. They accepted that where 75% of the population wished to live, only 25% of the state’s precipitation fell. Two, therefore they designed huge transfer projects from Northern California that was wet and sparsely settled, southward to where the state was dry and populated. They assumed that northerners wanted less water and relief from flooding, and southerners more water and security from drought, and thus their duty was to accommodate both.

[Valin]

@Geee

 

 

The poor and the middle classes usually bear the brunt of these policies in terms of reduced job opportunities and a slower economy. Exemption from the ramifications of one’s ideology characterize what can only be called a rich man’s utopian dreams: divert San Joaquin River water for fish, but not Hetch Hetchy water that supplies the Bay Area; talk of bulldozing almond trees, but not golf courses from Indian Wells to Pebble Beach to the Presidio; ensuring less water to poor foothill and Westside communities, but not pulling out the lush gardens or emptying the swimming pools of those who live in La Jolla, Bel Air, Carmel Valley, Woodside, and Presidio Heights.

 

To paraphrase Tacitus, they make a desert and call it liberal.

 

 

Ain't that the way it always is?

 

Also See The Scorching of California

 

 

So many on The Left think They Are So Damn Smart!

[Cyber_Liberty]

@Geee

 

 

The poor and the middle classes usually bear the brunt of these policies in terms of reduced job opportunities and a slower economy. Exemption from the ramifications of one’s ideology characterize what can only be called a rich man’s utopian dreams: divert San Joaquin River water for fish, but not Hetch Hetchy water that supplies the Bay Area; talk of bulldozing almond trees, but not golf courses from Indian Wells to Pebble Beach to the Presidio; ensuring less water to poor foothill and Westside communities, but not pulling out the lush gardens or emptying the swimming pools of those who live in La Jolla, Bel Air, Carmel Valley, Woodside, and Presidio Heights.

 

To paraphrase Tacitus, they make a desert and call it liberal.

 

 

Ain't that the way it always is?

 

Also See The Scorching of California

 

 

So many on The Left think They Are So Damn Smart!

And thus create another opportunity for VDH to rip them to shreds.

[Valin]

 

@Geee

 

 

The poor and the middle classes usually bear the brunt of these policies in terms of reduced job opportunities and a slower economy. Exemption from the ramifications of one’s ideology characterize what can only be called a rich man’s utopian dreams: divert San Joaquin River water for fish, but not Hetch Hetchy water that supplies the Bay Area; talk of bulldozing almond trees, but not golf courses from Indian Wells to Pebble Beach to the Presidio; ensuring less water to poor foothill and Westside communities, but not pulling out the lush gardens or emptying the swimming pools of those who live in La Jolla, Bel Air, Carmel Valley, Woodside, and Presidio Heights.

 

To paraphrase Tacitus, they make a desert and call it liberal.

 

 

Ain't that the way it always is?

 

Also See The Scorching of California

 

 

So many on The Left think They Are So Damn Smart!

And thus create another opportunity for VDH to rip them to shreds.

 

 

 

Like That's all that hard to do. Why do you think I stole Small Simple Questions from Socrates?

 

The problem is they don't listen, they being legends in their own minds. The thing is, many of us recognize the fact that We Could Be Wrong...much of The Left Doesn't.

[Cyber_Liberty]

Of course they don't listen @Valin, and they probably never will because they think we've come to our point of view by way of deceit and stupidity. Why should they listen to lying idiots?