Listen, you are 90% right. But as a Fresno resident I do also feel like people drive down the five (not through Fresno at all) or maaaaybe down 99 (through the shittiest corner of Fresno) and go “oh yeah that place sucks.” I’m not saying it’s great, it’s like a down market Irvine at best but I also feel like it gets a lot of unfair shit too.
"All of that is important, but also, as Levine points out, 80% of California’s water goes to agriculture. Which means that even if we disappeared the entire population overnight, we’d only save less than 20% of the total water."
Would we not save more than 20%? If there's no population, then there's no need to use any water for agriculture. I assume some water goes to orchards and crops and what have you naturally, so it wouldn't be 100%. But more than 20%.
The population of the state, not of earth. So obviously it’s a crazy hypothetical but the ag could conceivably still exist since so much of what is grown is exported. (If I remember correctly, the biggest percentage of the total water goes toward growing feed for cattle).
I don't really have any desire to see "Golda," but I'd be interested to see how it stacks up against "The Man Who Wasn't There," which is probably the smokingest movie I've ever seen. I saw it with someone who'd quit smoking and by the end he was practically jonesing for some nicotine.
I was psyched to see your name on Defector! Hope to see more in the future.
Despite living in LA since 2015 I never had a reason to drive up to the Bay Area until 2021 when my brother moved there. I was struck by two things:
1. There’s a popular saw that “between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh lies Kentucky”. Well, between Los Angeles and the Bay Area lies Texas.
2. There are at least two points on the trip on the 5 where the stench from the industrial cattle farms is so bad I nearly vomit.
I have family in Paso Robles and I have made the drive there or to Sunnyvale about ten times and the summer trips are always worse.
Listen, you are 90% right. But as a Fresno resident I do also feel like people drive down the five (not through Fresno at all) or maaaaybe down 99 (through the shittiest corner of Fresno) and go “oh yeah that place sucks.” I’m not saying it’s great, it’s like a down market Irvine at best but I also feel like it gets a lot of unfair shit too.
I have no opinion on Fresno. Bakersfield? Yes.
I was just thinking of all the signs I saw about water and cheering on Vance and Trump on the 5.
I'm not great at math or logic, but ...
"All of that is important, but also, as Levine points out, 80% of California’s water goes to agriculture. Which means that even if we disappeared the entire population overnight, we’d only save less than 20% of the total water."
Would we not save more than 20%? If there's no population, then there's no need to use any water for agriculture. I assume some water goes to orchards and crops and what have you naturally, so it wouldn't be 100%. But more than 20%.
The population of the state, not of earth. So obviously it’s a crazy hypothetical but the ag could conceivably still exist since so much of what is grown is exported. (If I remember correctly, the biggest percentage of the total water goes toward growing feed for cattle).
I don't really have any desire to see "Golda," but I'd be interested to see how it stacks up against "The Man Who Wasn't There," which is probably the smokingest movie I've ever seen. I saw it with someone who'd quit smoking and by the end he was practically jonesing for some nicotine.