The Abundance Choice, Part 13: The Lords of Scarcity
Often the motive for the land buyers isn’t even to grow food, but merely to acquire the water rights
Often the motive for the land buyers isn’t even to grow food, but merely to acquire the water rights
Wind, solar, geothermal, and tidal power will not be sufficient to replace existing electricity generation in California
If you’re trying to eliminate water scarcity, desalination is an option you can’t ignore
Every year this torrent of mostly treated effluent is equivalent in volume to the San Joaquin river in a wet year
The 1957 Water Plan called for construction of 376 new reservoirs to be in addition to those already built
The power of environmentalists in California is literally strangling the state’s economy
Environmentalists seem to oppose all new water infrastructure, everywhere
One of the core premises of the modern environmentalist movement, backed by the media, is the belief that a middle class lifestyle is unsustainable
They face a hostile, do-nothing legislature, a hostile press, and an environmentalist movement that wants to eliminate most of them
The policies required to solve urban water challenges and farming water challenges are not mutually exclusive