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the more mexicans come through and the tighter controls on water get, the more the nigel hipster techbubble companies and dudes will leave for greener pastures imo.
Or they could desalinate and start draining the Pacific. :larry
Or they could desalinate and start draining the Pacific. :larry
Dude it's super expensive to desalinate and currently the output would result to about a tear in the bucket.
Googled it. Native americans don't drink blood.
Googled it. Native americans don't drink blood.
You're thinking of Jews.
why don't they just invent a machine that makes water
It will become like Monaco, because all the filthy poors will have to move away because they can't afford the water/taxes.
That was covered in post #2 complete with a black person.
Probably like this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wBTdfAkqGU)
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I think you mean this :neogafspoiler (click to show/hide)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqJxuzpPxFk[close]
It will become like Monaco, because all the filthy poors will have to move away because they can't afford the water/taxes.
(http://i.imgur.com/UZoyQLS.png)
the more mexicans come through and the tighter controls on water get, the more the nigel hipster techbubble companies and dudes will leave for greener pastures imo.
cali as a simulacrum of monaco (http://i.imgur.com/kOBFuwJ.png)
F1 instead of rally racing and bastard x games racing events :obama
LAFC becoming the AS Monaco of the MLS :obama
becoming functionally irrelevant except for suspect banking and gambling :obama
Larry Ellison beginning a California dynasty :obama
It's funny hearing people from out of state talk about this. California doesn't need California's water, the rest of the country needs California's water.
Yeah I know about the great lakes, but you still don't get what I'm saying which is that California supplies most of the food for the whole country. Try finding a substitute for that.
Don't over evaluate that.
Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, and Texas could easily throttle up if the money is there.
Nah, I mentioned the farming aspect of Cali in here a little but it's absolutely undeniable that we can't really lose Cali as a food producer. ~50+% of our fruits, veggies and nuts come from there. a lot of stuff we eat here is unique to cali too iirc.
Which is why ultimately the people will get the shaft IMO (http://i.imgur.com/CdofvF1.png)
Fuck the west coast in general.
Sincerely,
The Superior East Coast
Wisconsin could pick up dairy in a second.
Ohio and Texas: Beef Cattle
The rest could do the veggies....
Fruit though, we fucked cause Florida sucks.
There's a lot of arable land here in the United States, but it aint really that simple :shaq2
I don't make a habit of downplaying human adaptation/innovation but losing Cali as a producer would be huge. In the short term, the price of fresh food would go up massively just because of the sheer amount of produce they create. You'd also be forced to actually deal with seasonality wrt some crops as well, because Cali can grow year round. What other states can you do that in... Not many.
This is it. It's cute to think that California isn't the underpinning of the whole way Americans eat, but it's not reality. Sure if you want to eat potatoes and onions for 8 months out the year you can do it, but there's no substitute.Wisconsin could pick up dairy in a second.
Ohio and Texas: Beef Cattle
The rest could do the veggies....
Fruit though, we fucked cause Florida sucks.
There's a lot of arable land here in the United States, but it aint really that simple :shaq2
I don't make a habit of downplaying human adaptation/innovation but losing Cali as a producer would be huge. In the short term, the price of fresh food would go up massively just because of the sheer amount of produce they create. You'd also be forced to actually deal with seasonality wrt some crops as well, because Cali can grow year round. What other states can you do that in... Not many.
This is it. It's cute to think that California isn't the underpinning of the whole way Americans eat, but it's not reality. Sure if you want to eat potatoes and onions for 8 months out the year you can do it, but there's no substitute.Wisconsin could pick up dairy in a second.
Ohio and Texas: Beef Cattle
The rest could do the veggies....
Fruit though, we fucked cause Florida sucks.
There's a lot of arable land here in the United States, but it aint really that simple :shaq2
I don't make a habit of downplaying human adaptation/innovation but losing Cali as a producer would be huge. In the short term, the price of fresh food would go up massively just because of the sheer amount of produce they create. You'd also be forced to actually deal with seasonality wrt some crops as well, because Cali can grow year round. What other states can you do that in... Not many.
Uh, I mean if you want to eat nothing but potatoes and onion you can survive without California. The green stuff though?
I was just talking about a gradual drop off in production but if an earthquake/nukes/some other disaster were to put cali in the hole and their production was to immediately stop we'd be absolutely fucked. Food prices on fresh produce would skyrocket, it'd ruin our economy for years honestly.
I don't think we'd run into immediate nutritional deficiencies because of food stores and supplementation but just based on the overall diversity of stuff coming from Cali our table would change immensely overnight.
The agri thing is missing the bigger issue, the collapse of an economy the size of India's (give or take) won't be nbd. Who's going to finance the Great Eastward Migrating when a fuckton of wealth is wiped out? This ain't 1934, no FDR going to create a whole new fun and exciting bureaucracy.
Not an expert, but if the current state tax and the stratospheric cost of living aren't incentive enough to drive people of of cali...
My biggest takeaway from this whole drought thing is that a lot of my conservative friends in the middle of the country think of California as some economically stunted bastard child and not an behemoth that would wreck the country if it went down.
This get's pretty close to the truth. And yeah, when your largest economy is also your largest (by far) food supplier the drought is kind of a big deal. I expect everyone to kick the can down the road though in favor of keeping the farmers happy.My biggest takeaway from this whole drought thing is that a lot of my conservative friends in the middle of the country think of California as some economically stunted bastard child and not an behemoth that would wreck the country if it went down.
I like to think of you as the state equivalent of JP Morgan and BoA combined :obama
For many of the same reasons why there isn't an oil one. It would be disastrous to freshwater ecology.
My biggest takeaway from this whole drought thing is that a lot of my conservative friends in the middle of the country think of California as some economically stunted bastard child and not an behemoth that would wreck the country if it went down.
I like to think of you as the state equivalent of JP Morgan and BoA combined :obama
It's funny hearing people from out of state talk about this. California doesn't need California's water, the rest of the country needs California's water.
The mandated rations are a joke, the whole thing is dancing around the fact that any real reform has to come from agri-business. It's like asking for the deficit to be fixed by cutting non-military discretionary spending.
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It will become like Monaco, because all the filthy poors will have to move away because they can't afford the water/taxes.
:lawd
Will spend my retirement there then in a pool drinking bottled water while tazering my mexican help and spilling water right in front of them.
This thread is literally insane. What is wrong with you people, don't you read the canon?QuoteIn 2032, 22 years after 2010 "Great Earthquake", the former cities of Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara have merged into a pseudo-utopian San Angeles, under the pseudo-pacifist guidance and control of a Dr. Raymond Cocteau. Weapons and vices are outlawed, human behavior is regulated, citizens carry implanted transceivers, and in the resulting absence of any violent crime, the San Angeles Police (SAPD) has lost any ability to handle violent behavior of any kind.
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