>If I understand the global warming models correctly,
>this situation will be normal in California within a
>decade or so. Sending bottled water to farmers may be
>"nice" but it's no way to run an economy. Farming is
>dead in the far north, for good, apparently.
>
>tim
This is exactly the sort of thing that symbolizes the deepening
environmental crisis. You have the following things interacting with each
other:
1. growth of cities in what amounts to desert conditions (Phoenix, Las
Vegas, etc.) requires water-based energy to be diverted into air
conditioning, lawn sprinklers, golf courses, etc.
2. such cities are car-based by their nature. SUV's, the car of choice in
such yahoo locales, were responsible for 15 percent of the increase in
greenhouse emissions last year.
3. food supplies to such cities involves agribusiness suplies from
out-of-state either in California or Mexico. by their nature, crops are
subject to pesticides, chemical fertilizers and irrigation, all of which
seriously degrade the environment.
4. water diverted to hydroelectric dams and irrigation causes rivers to dry
up, thus leading to the extinction of valuable fish.
What a fuggin mess.
Louis Proyect
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