Re:The Mining of Minerals and the Limits to Growth (2021) [pdf]
by lazide on Monday August 29, 2022 @06:45PM
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Hardly dismissive - it’s called staying on topic? A question was asked, folks seem to not know the how or the why if the situation - so here I am.
The California diversion of the Colorado is downstream of AZ and NV. California only gets the water they let it have, under the agreement. Which California probably has more lawyers than total population in both AZ and NV state Capitals, so there is that.
California has always out ‘peopled’ and out ‘moneyed’ it’s neighbors, and LA+SF has done that within the state.
When resources were seemingly infinite and the country was growing at a breakneck pace, that was controversial but didn’t really break things.
Everything has a breaking point somewhere. We’ll see if this is one of them.
The California diversion of the Colorado is downstream of AZ and NV. California only gets the water they let it have, under the agreement. Which California probably has more lawyers than total population in both AZ and NV state Capitals, so there is that.
California has always out ‘peopled’ and out ‘moneyed’ it’s neighbors, and LA+SF has done that within the state.
When resources were seemingly infinite and the country was growing at a breakneck pace, that was controversial but didn’t really break things.
Everything has a breaking point somewhere. We’ll see if this is one of them.