California is a deep blue, one-party state where even the last “Republican” governor signed on to the Democrats’ reckless spending, Amnesty, and environmental extremism. The drought that is ravaging California has nothing to do with Global Warming, it’s just normal cyclical weather. It has everything to do with environmental extremism and a political class that will spend $100Billion on a Train-to-Nowhere, but can’t find the money to develop a sustainable water infrastructure.
But the biggest problem in California is that the government has refused to build the reservoirs and dams necessary to actually save water when the rain does come. As the Wall Street Journal points out, Israel has weathered droughts for years. So has Arizona. Both built infrastructure. California has not, largely because politicians like Jerry Brown stopped such construction decades ago. The Wall Street Journal points out:
Money is not the obstacle. Since 2000 voters have approved five bonds authorizing $22 billion in spending for water improvements… desalination projects have been abandoned…
Because no sooner is an infrastructure project proposed than the Sierra Club and a hundred other Environmentalist Denominations file lawsuits demanding it be stopped. Environmentalists have actually put a measure on the ballot to dismantle existing water reservoirs. Environmentalism is a fundamentalist, extremist religion that says nothing should ever be built anywhere if it could potentially annoy wildlife. It’s not “NIMBY,” it’s “BANANA: Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anybody.”
It also doesn’t help California’s problems that they flush 2.6 million acre-feet of usable water into the ocean because environmentalists are worried about their sacred fish.
Let’s debunk this trick the left is using, since it gets on my nerves.
Reasonable Person: “There’s really no evidence to support your apocalyptic fear of Global Warming.”
Leftist Nutjob: “It’s not ‘Global Warming,’ it’s ‘Climate Change,’ and mankind is responsible for it.”
Reasonable Person: “Well, how exactly is the Climate changing?”
Leftist Nutjob: “It’s getting warmer because of man-made greenhouse gases.”
Reasonable Person: “On a global scale?”
Leftist Nutjob: “Yes.”
Reasonable Person: “So… Global Warming.”
Leftist Nutjob: “Burn the Climate Denier!”
Underneath its various facades, Liberalism is built on a set of interlocking hatreds: multicultural hatred of Whites, feminist hatred of men (with LGBTQs as acolytes), redistributionist hatred of wealth creators, secularist hatred of Christianity, transnationalist hatred of the American nation-state, pacifist hatred of the male warrior, and finally, environmentalist hatred of the human race itself.
Scratch any of their high-sounding campaigns and eventually that is what it comes down to.
The amount of water that would be conserved by curbing Californians’ showers is nothing compared to the billions of gallons of water pumped into the Pacific each year for… wait for it… conservation projects. The chief culprit is the delta smelt, a 3-inch fish that has painted itself into an evolutionary corner thanks to a 1-year lifespan and low fertility rates.
Whatever happened to Darwin’s theory of Natural Selection?
The train to nowhere is misnamed. It starts nowhere but ends in Las Vegas. Intelligent Californians will take all their possessions and buy a one way ticket and leave behind high taxes, high unemployment, high or too many regulations, corporate and individual, and high illegal immigration. The once “Golden State” has become so tarnished that it is beyond repair. The kindest thing that could happen is the massive earthquake that will send it out to or in the depths of the sea. I got out in time.
The Sierra club not only sets policy in Kaly, it also sets policy at the EPA through a strategy called, “sue and settle” which means no congress and no courts to stand in the way of progressive communism.
But, but…NESTLE!!!!!!
Breaking: Government now flying in Illegal Aliens into USA – paid for by US Taxpayers
http://commoncts.blogspot.com/2015/04/breaking-us-govt-now-flying-in-illegal.html
Hey, they are getting what they deserve, but regrettably the remainder of the US has to pay the price in higher fruit and vegetable prices. Then the socialists bemoan the poor not having enough food to eat, so let’s increase food stamps and welfare.
environmentalism is a communist plot to destroy our economy. the biggest polluters in history are the communist countries. the environmental movement never criticizes them.
Tommy – because a clean environment isn’t their goal. Socialism and governmental control over as much of your life as possible is.
California is caught in the middle of “the tragedy of the commons.” The government planners have ignored the posterity by building sufficient storage compounds for water which is essential to human life and critical in human production.
Drought is not the problem. It is a well known condition that occurs from time to time. The problem lies in inadequate preparation for the inevitable drought.
Governor Brown is treating the water “shortage” in California as a sheeple (population) problem and threatening to fine those who do not obey government mandates on water usage.
If it is purely a sheeple problem, then Governor Brown would recognize that illegal immigrants are increasing the water usage programs and do not have the money to pay coercive fines and also live in the shadows where they are difficult to find in order to be fined.
The standard shower head puts out 5 gallons of water per minute. A full bathtub holds about 70 gallons. Low-flow shower heads and sharing the bath water can reduce the gallons involved. People will figure that out if they are coerced by the government; and, government coercion has a track record of working.
Look at water usage as a clogged freeway at rush hour. It is a combination of two issues, over-usage and inadequate alternatives. Where Governor Brown has it really wrong is in his zen approach of abandoning wayward views and embracing the “embryo of the intrinsically pure dharma.” Dharma being in accord with the order that makes life and the universe possible.
My problem with Governor Brown is that he is unable to deal with the real reality and he is forever switching over to his preferred reality. He has his very own understandings of practice, custom, duty, justice, virtue, nature, quality, property, righteousness, virtue, etc. So his degrees and statues convey his alternative reality world to which the sheeple must adapt.
Water is a critical problem and California will begin to understand the cost of water profligacy. If the wells that feed a locality go dry, the houses will become unsaleable. People do not travel to places without water to invest in real estate. That is not a zen observation, it is a common sense observation that every hick and rube can understand.
People in Detroit abandoned perfectly good houses which soon became blighted trash. The parasites helped the decline by tearing out everything salable including the copper pipes.
It takes time and planning to properly impound water. In doing so, land must be converted in how it is used. Also, water usage will still be curtailed in times of shortage. To have a woefully inadequate water storage system along a growing population and business infrastructure and the resulting water usage is just another government boondoggle. Except, when you run out of water, you can’t print deficit water in a quantitative easing scheme.
I think humans should strive to care for and use wisely the planet and its resources.
I also think there are times when you have to weigh choices and choose a slightly bad/risky option for the good. Building dams and reservoirs makes sense for an area that US mostly dry. I am unconvinced dams/reservoirs are bad for the environment but if they are they are still a better option than this.
The environmentalist dream (their “Heaven”) of a completely pristine environment as clean as a surgical theatre is unachievable. If we are going to have an advanced, technological culture, we have to accept that a certain level of pollution (ideally low) will be necessary in a certain number of places. We should work on that.
Steve. According the Administration those who are flown in, their families will have to reimburse the government. Fat chance? It is possible. Some of those families do have some money and some good can result. The going rate for a coyote to escourt a family border to the U.S is $10,000. Air fare is much less and more safe. There is a way to make this work. They should claim to be refugees. Webster defines refugee as one who flees for safety esp. to a foreign country. And asylum is defined as a place of refuge. I agree we need to close the border but allow for asylum. Here in El Salvador and in neighboring Honduras, like ISIS, gangs control large parts of cities and municipalities. The day before yesterday a family with eleven chldren were forced to abandon their home in 24 hours, because the gang wants it,and threatened to kill a child a day until they surrender and comply. The family took what they could moved to another department (state) and has set up housekeeping under the sky in tents. This is not an isolated case. in a nearby municipality, the gang cleared out an apartment complex of its 125 tenants. Would we tolerate this in the U.S.? Remember Mara Salvatrucha and 18th Street had their beginnings in Los Angeles.