News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's ... by throwaway1777 on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:33PM (#24273795)
Overly pessimistic. We have irrigation, dams, and drainage, we’re not totally beholden to the natural rainfall cycle anymore for farming. As far as coastal cities go, we should be investing more in sea walls, but I think technology can help solve these problems too as it has so far in Miami and Venice. If it eventually gets too expensive to maintain that will happen gradually, not like a sudden refugee crisis.
Re:2,000-year-old redwoods survive wildfire at California's ... by stingrae on Tuesday August 25, 2020 @01:49PM (#24273965)
we're not too protected either. What percentage of the US's food gets grown in CA? https://www.mercurynews.com/2017/07/27/california-farms-prod....

The solution to California's droughts isn't just dams. You can't build a dam large enough to hold enough water for going multiple years without rainfall and the aquifers, which bank water in the ground were deeply depleted in the last drought.