Weren't they supposed to have learned that in '88 in Yellowstone?
West Coast residents are in an abusive relationship. Crime, tyranny, rampaging black bloc thugs in the streets, and every year the entire coast burns. I just can't imagine why anyone lives there.
I wonder if California raise up a new William Mulholland to simply take the electricity and water from somebody else.
I wonder if California raise up a new William Mulholland to simply take the electricity and water from somebody else.
Citing as a pretext the supposed need to protect a three-inch baitfish called the Delta smelt, environmental organizations filed a succession of lawsuits beginning in the 1990s that forced the state to divert billions of gallons of water away from farmers and families and dumping it into the Pacific Ocean. Over the years, the crisis worsened due to environmentalists’ opposition to new water storage projects and restrictions on groundwater pumping implemented by former Governor Jerry Brown.
As a result, the San Joaquin Valley is ensnared in a years-long water crisis. Two-hundred-fifty thousand acres of productive land have been idled, and a million acres in total—one-third of the Valley’s farmland, an area bigger than the state of Rhode Island—will have to be abandoned if the current trajectory continues. The crisis has created high unemployment in the Valley and a host of other social ills as the livelihoods of tens of thousands of people—many of them farmworkers—have been ripped away.
The media often ascribes the overall problem to drought or global warming, neither of which are true. The irrigation system was designed to withstand five years of drought by capturing water in wet years and storing it for use in dry ones. The problem is that the government is preventing us from using the system to full capacity, and it’s politically impossible to get new storage projects approved.
The media also darkly warns of various environmental catastrophes if more water is diverted back to human use. What they don’t mention is that 80 percent of the water from the Sierra Nevada snowpack is dumped into the Pacific Ocean, but if that number were merely reduced to 75 percent, there would be plenty of water for everyone—farmers, cities, and the environment. The need for drastic water restrictions is being entirely manufactured. There is no actual water shortage—in fact, with proper use of the irrigation system, there is far more water available than we need.
HA have you ever met the human race?
California is currently on fire, having also been plagued by darkness, earthquakes, and hippies...
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.... State legislators, trying to figure out why God keeps unleashing bowl after bowl of wrath upon California, cast lots and threw all the remaining Republicans in the state into the Pacific Ocean in hopes that the plagues would subside. Both men were swallowed by a great fish and are expected to survive.
I'm not sure if this is already being discussed or not but I found it odd, annoying and wanted to tell them (the mailer) a big FU!!!
Today at my parents house the UNITED STEELWORKERS UNION sent me and my aunt, moms youngest sister the form for absentee voting.
Hum why?
1. Neither of us have lived at that address is forever
2. Neither of us are members of that union, my dad was/is (retired)
3. Neither of us asked for this form
4. HTF did they get our names
State That Just Voted To Reduce Penalties For Pedophiles Not Sure Why God Keeps Lighting Them On Fire
I dont' know how they keep coming up with this stuff, but The Babylon Bee is on...er...fire.
And its not just the overpopulating burn-ey areas. Its the econazis preventing prescribed burns because they are bad for the ecosystem, air quality, etc. They fail to grasp this stuff is SUPPOSED to burn every couple years. You end up with small, helpful (seeds, grasses, etc) fires every 5 years, instead of huge infernos.
The small burns are great for some seeds and many grasses. Some pines dont release seeds from the cones until they are heated. And once that happens more pines grow. UNTIL... no fire happens for years and then the inferno comes through, utterly destroying the cone AND the seed. Now permanent damage has been done.