Climate Change? Nahhh ...

So nothing's changed since 1927.

Whew!

 

My brother lives in San Diego and I was just out there visiting in February. There are so many homeless people you couldn’t find a single spot where you could swing your arms and NOT hit one.

Many of the sidewalks are impassable because of all the tents set up there. Even in Balboa Park, there were homeless people under every single overhang.

So, they’re not in any way confined to certain parks or other designated locations like they are in, say, Honolulu.

I don’t know which is better.

In DC, no one cares as long as they stay out of Northwest.

 

Hey pal, how about we keep this shit to ourselves and not spoil a good thing?

 

<shrug> They'll just think "Alabama? Oh, hell no, I don't care how cheap it is."

 

It’s cheap for a reason.

Because it sucks.

 

Yeah, I knew that was the next line. That's why I stopped where I did.

 

The real problem is gonna be that solar panel on the roof of the carport.

 

The Market Value of Water in the Ogallala Aquifer on JSTOR

Boone Pickens Wants To Sell You His Water

https://theconversation.com/farmers...ause-the-government-pays-them-to-do-it-145501

https://www.greenbiz.com/article/go...a-high-plains-aquifer-now-theyre-depleting-it

https://www.myhighplains.com/water-...quifer-when-will-the-wells-run-dry-what-then/

Who could have possibly seen this coming?

From that last article, last year:


"Even though Ogallala can recharge, it’s a slow process. Research from sources such as the United States Geological Survey shows that withdrawals from its water supply far outpace that rate. According to researchers from Stanford University, West Texas A&M University, and others, up to 40% of Ogallala will be unable to support irrigated crop production within the next 80 years. Other studies have even more dire news, projecting that the entire aquifer will be 70% depleted within the next 50 years.

It isn’t a matter of if, according to researchers, but when the communities supported by Ogallala will need to adjust away from that reliance. In fact, it’s a matter of ‘now.’ Yet, after decades of abundance that has woven the aquifer into the fabric of life on the High Plains, that idea can be hard to fathom. "

 

Half the homeless in LA are older than 50 and are on the streets because they can no longer afford housing.

The truth about our homeless crisis: As Californians age, they are priced out

 

National Geographic raised this issue 25 years ago. If we deplete that aquifer enough, the Great Plains will be the Barren Plains.

 

Can’t we just let the market decide? If someone needs water, they’ll simply pay more.