<story><title>California&apos;s dry season is turning into a permanent state of being</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-08-california-season-permanent-state.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>frazbin</author><text>Real quick thing about the water in California: it&amp;#x27;s important because it is used to make food, which is exported from the state&amp;#x27;s central plains to the rest of the country. Your mental model should not include the direct water use of humans.. this is and always has been about the economics of food production.&lt;p&gt;So if people leave California, it will be because they can&amp;#x27;t get jobs in agriculture.. people would be coming from Fresno, not San Francisco. Also the increase in food prices brought about by the collapse of that titanic industry will be borne by everybody in the country, and is therefore the problem of everybody in North America who likes pistachios and such.</text></comment>
<story><title>California&apos;s dry season is turning into a permanent state of being</title><url>https://phys.org/news/2021-08-california-season-permanent-state.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>eplanit</author><text>These droughts were anticipated, but here in California preparing for climate change means preaching at others, and setting up a carbon exchange.  Not a single new reservoir has been built since 1979.  It&amp;#x27;s impossible to take California seriously about much of anything, but especially not regarding the environment:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;In 1979, California’s population was a little more than 23 million. Today, it is more than 39 million. Yet in that entire time, California did not construct one additional, large-scale water storage project – meaning water infrastructure that once suited the state’s irrigation, livestock, and human needs has become chronically inadequate to meet its essential tasks.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nationalreview.com&amp;#x2F;corner&amp;#x2F;another-california-drought-with-no-new-reservoirs&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nationalreview.com&amp;#x2F;corner&amp;#x2F;another-california-dro...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not only does the state not prepare, but thanks to the record-setting wildfires of the past &lt;i&gt;decade&lt;/i&gt;, the amount of carbon and soot pumped into the air has probably offset any gains that had been made.  They&amp;#x27;re really just stupid out here.</text></comment>