www.californiadroughtupdate.org/20210826-California-Water-and-Infrastructure-Report.pdf?
“California’s wildfire problem is the worst it’s ever been. Just like it was last year. And the years before that. And the decades before that.
“The insatiable beast devouring the state has become a terror of our own making. Ineffective red and blue slogans involving rakes or carbon footprints are empty rants that do nothing to curb the devastation.
“The problem is fuel build-up. And it is climate change. It’s over suppression, and under suppression, and utility company practices, and funding conundrums, and invasive species, and expanding “development, and carelessness, and limited aircraft and hand crews, and engine staffing levels, and federal fire pay, and protected habitats, and code pushback, and timber laws, and, and, and …
“Fire is winning. Humans are losing.”
“California is up in smoke but still won’t stop playing with fire” by Clare Frank
A megadrought, record forest fires, Covid mandates, homelessness, record crime statistics: Welcome to California and a governor who faces recall on September 14. As I said about Obama, any drunkard pulled off of the streets would do less damage than he has done. The same for Governor Newsom.
With half of the state and a good portion of most western states in the most serious drought category– Exceptional Drought- rather than a visionary and optimistic approach to solving such problems we get the nightmare of “somehow getting by.”
The first item below addresses that question by my colleague Ben Deniston’s August 22 presentation to a Zoom meeting of the LaRouche Political Action Committee , “The Future Belongs to Fusion,” rips to pieces the pessimists and the Avatar president’s embrace of the globalist intent to destroy national sovereignty and send us all back to feudalism.
Then it is onto the drought, beginning with the U.S. Drought Monitor for the western states and California. That is followed by a short picture of the critically important role the Colorado River plays in the U.S. economy.
Under the title, “The Damage Being Done by Drought and California’s Governor,” are reports on: the further restrictions by the state, cutting off thousands of more farmers from water; the damage to crops and the first plans to pay farmers not to grow food. And just in case those outside of California think that the destruction of agriculture is not their concern, we shall remind them that California grows about one-half of all the vegetables, fruits and nuts that the nation produces.
Continuing on the theme of the effects of the drought is the report on thousands of household wells going dry.
Under the title, “Drought, Low Reservoirs, Shutting Down the State’s Last Nuclear Power Plant– Yeah, Go For It says Governor Newsom,” ironically the state must bring on line more natural gas to generate electricity as the reservoirs shrink and produce less electricity.
The next section is on the fires, leading with an excellent article by Clare Frank, who joined the fire service at 17 and was promoted up the ranks, becoming the first and only female chief of fire protection for Cal Fire.
The Feature this week returns us to Space Policy with this article: “Outright Sabotage! The Delay of NASA’s 2024 Artemis Moon Mission Is No Accident.”
