California Is Lacking Sufficient Water and Power Resources.

We lack water and power resources in California, at least enough to serve the 39 million inhabitants. And at any given time there are another million or so visiting. Not to mention  several other million not counted. This is 1 in 9 inhabitants of the whole country.

Conservationists seem to have an agenda to delay or defer any possibility for the new sources that may be found or utilized as in the case of water Desalination. They also help to prevent or delay water reservoirs being built. So be it.

The smelt in the Sacramento River Delta are vastly more important than people and that is the judgment of the court on restricting water supplies from the north. Fine.

When Water is No Longer For Sale, Then What?

When the water runs dry and the livestock die and the plants wither and people won't be able to sell their homes ( who wants them with no water available) and businesses close and the arid state turns back to arid, maybe then a sense of reasonableness will return.

It is much like with the gasoline issues. When there is too pricey oil from imported sources and we can't explore and discover for our own, when cars stop being sold and the wind machines can't get built in the desert and the  power plants can't get built near the ocean, and coal can't be burned as fuel and new nuclear power sources are unthinkable and there is nothing left to conserve and enough people become unemployed and homes won't sell because their is no power to light them or cool them ( who wants them with no power to live in them) , maybe a sense of reasonableness will return. It also might sound like there is going to be a solar retrofit mandate at point of sale soon?

Who is Right?

Who needs to be reasonable when you are right? That position is why so many conservationist groups and a few judges set the policy against what the people's judgment is. Because voters are wrong and these few are right. That is the way it is.  When enough people won't bother to vote or do so and get it wrong and enough people leave , though there are plenty coming, and when enough people take to the streets with no other place to go, maybe a sense of reasonableness will return.

In Today's world here in California, none of the above scenarios are likely because saving the earth happens to be a greater priority than the people who live on it. So be it.

Is A Sense Of Reasonableness Possible?

When enough people stop breeding and stop buying and stop eating and stop driving and stop using computers and printers and cell phones and all the other myriad of stuff that take power and in effect either stop living or move somewhere else, maybe a sense of reasonableness will return. Maybe indeed.

A Question to Ponder

After the dinosaurs lived and then billions of years later, there was oil. Since there are so many more people than were dinosaurs, will it take less time until we could expect the earth to produce more oil so the next inhabitants on earth can enjoy the same circus as we do now, living in the 20th century. I sure hope so, I wouldn't want to deprive anyone of  the current day logic. It is too amazing.  Reasonableness does not seem to be returning anytime soon.

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