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Re:Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California ... by theptip on Saturday July 24, 2021 @12:09PM (#27942062)
It seems that you’re making a claim about what policies are possible; I don’t have enough domain knowledge here to disagree.

My point was just that If most voters are opposed to your solution, it won’t happen - even if that means nothing happens and we maintain the broken status quo - regardless of whether it is the only way forward within our current legal framework. In other words, noting that while it sounds viable from a raw economics perspective, it might hit problems with voter acceptability. And voters do care about what “aught to have happened”, for better or worse.

Re:Without Enough Water to Go Around, Farmers in California ... by bradleyjg on Saturday July 24, 2021 @01:44PM (#27942940)
I would never bet against the crappy status quo lasting indefinitely because voters would rather stamp their feet than face reality as it is and pick the least bad choice.