Trigger warning – it’s Monday and I’m cranky. This could get profane. Hide the children.
This post is about the drought in California – an unecessary drought. I know many of you who are looking at California in your rear view mirrors, and your attitude is “so what?” I still live here, so I care.
Yes, I care. I wish our “leaders” cared as much as I do. They obviously do not. Either that, or they are monumentally stupid. Two choices. Well, I guess there is a third choice: they don’t care and they are monumentally stupid. Come to think of it, that seems like the safest bet. Yeah, I’m going with that.
I say that because there are some conditions here, both climatic and social that are so obvious ignoring them or otherwise failing to meaningfully adress them requires an absolute lack of mental acuity or ardent willfull blindness.
I made a case a few months ago – read this and see if you agree with me;
California Politicos: Need Water? Build a Train
All the preceding is preamble to a long, well written piece in City Journal by Victor Davis Hanson that is worth ten minutes of your time:
Jerry Brown had a chance to do something about the drought the last time he was Governor – back in the 1970s. But he and the rest of the “visionaries” in his administrations practiced a “no growth” mentality. Infrastructure planning and implementation ground to a halt. Because building new freeways would create more traffic or something. And more dams would equal less water? More likely “fish first, f*ck everybody else”. Or maybe they believed “if you don’t build it they won’t come”. News flash, Jerry – you didn’t build it and they came anyway. And now we’re all screwed.
But hey – trains! Just like Europe! Problem solved!