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Yeah, that's pretty much what I thought. A good
friend of mine grew up on a farm in California, and farmed there himself for a
while. He said the last time he was home, both his and his dad's properties were
paved over with expensive houses on them. He couldn't even tell where they had
been because the roads weren't in the same places any more. Said he was sorry
he'd gone back.
Liz
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 19, 2009 4:17
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Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Valley
demonstrators march for water
People are going to have to make hard choices here very
soon, and I'm not sure they even vaguely realize how things are
shifting. If they don't cut water from the delta the fishing industry
will die. If they don't provide water for farms , california become too
expensive to sustain even a fraction of its current population - it'll
probably tumble like a house of cards.
Watching the foothills
and tahoe get developed into suburbias the last few years has been
surreal - farmers were protesting losing water rights to some of these
low sierra towns more than 5 years ago and nobody listened, they just
nodded as the farms go out of business and let the development
continue. Today's paper shows silicon valley with 11-12%
unemployment (officially) and no method of recovery. All I can see
happening there is an emerging pattern of decreased wages, followed by
falling property values , perhaps shutting down much of what remains of
it in 2-3 years. It'll be quite a mess to deal with when people realize
that having paved it over, there won't be orchards there anymore.
'open-space' was removed from the official english word list the bay
area uses some time ago.
They say the sierra snow pack was
70-80% of normal, I climbed above 7k feet a week ago and saw a lot
more early melt , a lot more soil, and post holed a lot more than I
remember before. And it seemed to me like the rivers were pretty timid
(the truckee in particular) for april.
--- On Fri,
4/17/09, Liz <liz@allslash.org> wrote:
From:
Liz <liz@allslash.org>
Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Valley
demonstrators march for water
To: "Healthy soil and sustainable
growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
Date: Friday,
April 17, 2009, 8:45 PM
This sort of thing makes me wonder whether those areas may simply become
uninhabitable pretty soon. Mass migrations out of California, etc. No
available amount of money is going to make a real difference.
I lived around there as a child and remember how pretty and green it was.
It's sad to think of it turning into desert even though I know that even
then, the apparent fertility was artificially sustained.
Liz
http://life-as-a-spectator-sport.com
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