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The Golden Brown State’s fourth year of drought has brought massive land sinkage, aka subsidence, caused by continued and deeper drilling of ground water by farmers. The subsidence has been observed for a while, but it is getting worse as more water is pumped out of the ground. Not only is the subsidence another warning […] October 8th, 2015 | Category: overpopulation | Tags: California, drought, environment, immigration, natural resources, resource management, sustainability, water shortage, water supply |  Email This Post |  Print This Post Switzerland has national referenda, in which the citizens vote their preferences about important issues facing the nation. The process has provided an interesting look at Swiss beliefs about immigration. In 2010 the Swiss voted for automatic deportation for foreign criminals. In 2009, voters approved a measure to ban minarets. In February of this year, the […] October 22nd, 2014 | Category: overpopulation | Tags: environment, immigration, natural resources, overpopulation, sustainability | Email This Post | Print This Post The Los Angeles Times has been doing a fair amount of drought coverage that can be worry-making (e.g. “Severe drought? California has been here before”), but on Monday it assured readers that 70 years of low rainfall won’t be a state killer. Well-read water worriers know about the Medieval mega-droughts that struck the west […] October 6th, 2014 | Category: overpopulation | Tags: California, drought, immigration, population growth, sustainability, water supply | Email This Post | Print This Post Here in northern California, local TV news has a lot of coverage about the water shortage, which I don’t remember happening during previous droughts. So the situation is bad, with millions more people using water when there is less of it. True, most of the water supply goes to agriculture, not home faucets, but the […] August 12th, 2014 | Category: sustainability | Tags: arizona, California, environment, immigration, natural resources, sustainability, water supply | Email This Post | Print This Post The failing economy of the once-Golden State has perked up enough to start drawing newbies once again, with more than 300,000 new residents in the last year. California had unemployment over 10 percent for four years, so October’s 8.7 percent joblessness indicates the uptick that is so attractive to outsiders. In San Francisco, the tech […] December 12th, 2013 | Category: overpopulation | Tags: California, environment, natural resources, population growth, sustainability, water, water supply | Email This Post | Print This Post West of the Mississippi, water supply is a problem. (Check out the Drought Monitor map, updated weekly, to see the current state of dryness which is concentrated in the west, not the east.) California is overpopulated at 38 million residents, and several years of sub-average rainfall have added to the stress on water supply. The […] November 22nd, 2013 | Category: overpopulation, uncategorized | Tags: California, environment, immigration, overpopulation, sustainability, water supply | Email This Post | Print This Post |
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