"Daddy" needs to grow up about scientific reality.
Anything less than acceptance of scientific reality is grossly immature. California still has a savage drought, and letting loose some water for some quick agricultural production leaves little room for any relapse into drought. One nearly-OK winter rainy season does not end a five-year drought.
Even more significantly, Californians may need to adapt to their state becoming much drier as rainfall patterns shift northward. Agriculture is the biggest user of water. Water in the Sacramento Delta? One needs to drain irrigated soils, lest those soils become salty and unproductive.
"Daddy" could be to the environment what Dubya was to the financial industry. That could be even worse. We got a sesquiannum of economic collapse from Dubya's insane, destructive economics. Environmental disasters can have much-greater durability.
...I think I know where much of the growing of nuts and grapes will appear if California goes semi-desert. In 2012, the "Year Without a Winter", parts of southern Michigan began to look much like the Central valley of California, even to the extent that the grass went yellowish-brown in the summer. That just doesn't happen in Michigan. Just imagine the Detroit getting a climate more like that of Sacramento.
Anything less than acceptance of scientific reality is grossly immature. California still has a savage drought, and letting loose some water for some quick agricultural production leaves little room for any relapse into drought. One nearly-OK winter rainy season does not end a five-year drought.
Even more significantly, Californians may need to adapt to their state becoming much drier as rainfall patterns shift northward. Agriculture is the biggest user of water. Water in the Sacramento Delta? One needs to drain irrigated soils, lest those soils become salty and unproductive.
"Daddy" could be to the environment what Dubya was to the financial industry. That could be even worse. We got a sesquiannum of economic collapse from Dubya's insane, destructive economics. Environmental disasters can have much-greater durability.
...I think I know where much of the growing of nuts and grapes will appear if California goes semi-desert. In 2012, the "Year Without a Winter", parts of southern Michigan began to look much like the Central valley of California, even to the extent that the grass went yellowish-brown in the summer. That just doesn't happen in Michigan. Just imagine the Detroit getting a climate more like that of Sacramento.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.