{"id":2048,"date":"2015-04-06T10:19:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:19:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=2048"},"modified":"2024-11-07T10:11:46","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T18:11:46","slug":"an-unecessary-drought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/an-unecessary-drought\/","title":{"rendered":"An Unecessary Drought"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"TweetButton_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\"  data-url=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/an-unecessary-drought\/\" data-text=\"An Unecessary Drought\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document,\"script\",\"twitter-wjs\");<\/script><\/div>\n<p>Trigger warning &#8211; it&#8217;s Monday and I&#8217;m cranky. \u00a0This could get profane. \u00a0Hide the children.<\/p>\n<p>This post is about the drought in California &#8211; an unecessary drought. \u00a0I know many of you who are looking at California in your rear view mirrors, and your attitude is &#8220;so what?&#8221; \u00a0I still live here, so I care.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I care. \u00a0I wish our &#8220;leaders&#8221; cared as much as I do. \u00a0They obviously do not. \u00a0Either that, or they are monumentally stupid. \u00a0Two choices. \u00a0 \u00a0Well, I guess there is a third choice: they don&#8217;t care <em>and<\/em> they are monumentally stupid. \u00a0Come to think of it, that seems like the safest bet. \u00a0Yeah, I&#8217;m going with that.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>I made \u00a0a case a few months ago &#8211; read this and see if you agree with me;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ego-vero.net\/main\/?p=1234\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">California Politicos: \u00a0Need Water? \u00a0Build a Train<\/a><\/p>\n<p>All the preceding is preamble to a long, well written piece in City Journal by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Victor_Davis_Hanson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Victor Davis Hanson<\/a> that is worth ten minutes of your time:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/the-scorching-of-california\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Scorching of California<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Jerry Brown had a chance to do something about the drought the last time he was Governor &#8211; back in the 1970s. \u00a0But he and the rest of the &#8220;visionaries&#8221; in his administrations practiced a &#8220;no growth&#8221; mentality. \u00a0Infrastructure planning and implementation ground to a halt. \u00a0Because building new freeways would create more traffic or something. \u00a0And more dams would equal less water? \u00a0More likely &#8220;fish first, f*ck everybody else&#8221;. \u00a0Or maybe they believed &#8220;if you don&#8217;t build it they won&#8217;t come&#8221;. \u00a0News flash, Jerry &#8211; you didn&#8217;t build it and they came anyway. \u00a0And now we&#8217;re all screwed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">But hey &#8211; trains! \u00a0Just like Europe! \u00a0Problem solved!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tweet Trigger warning &#8211; it&#8217;s Monday and I&#8217;m cranky. \u00a0This could get profane. \u00a0Hide the children. 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