Hey gang, check out this open letter written by the head of Nevada’s water allocation program. Some choice quotes in there:
"Despite the obvious urgency of the situation, the last sixty-two days produced exactly nothing in terms of meaningful collective action to help forestall the looming crisis,”
“The unreasonable expectations of water users, including the prices and drought profiteering proposals, only further divide common goals and interests. Through our collective inaction, the federal government, the basin states and every water user on the Colorado River is complicit in allowing the situation to reach this point."
Thanks for bringing it to everyone’s attention, but damn the lib brain is deep once you’re a high level in the institutions
This link will open a PDF
https://www.8newsnow.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/59/2022/08/SNWA-Letter-pdf-combined.pdf?segment=1
Are we ready to see how our completely hollowed out neoliberal government handles a crisis that requires central planning? Yes we are. :antelope-popcorn:
That stood out to me, both in this letter and his one in June. He keeps talking about working together, collective planning, all stuff that is simply impossible between these entities, as we’re witnessing
Capitalism is an absolutely zero-sum game. The best case scenario for the land owners is they get bought out by the government, and maybe they get off okay if they’re given a decent price. But at least some of them just aren’t going to get the water they need to operate their farms, which makes that land utterly worthless. All the value just gone. And unless the feds pony up some very attractive buy-outs no one has any incentive what so ever to be the one who makes a sacrifice. It’s a war of all against all.
And of course regardless of who does and does not get water all kinds of small towns, small operations, and lots and lots of workers are going to get totally, utterly fucked and thrown out into the streets of LA or Vegas.
there would not be water shortages if we ended large-scale animal agriculture (or even just meat agriculture)
Just outlaw almond farming, grass lawns, and golf courses. The level of “sacrifice” to stop this being an issue is so small.
if you banned golf courses the capitalists would have their chud dogs murdering people in 24hrs
Symbolically and realistically I’d like the think that even the zombie chud contingent could be brought to their senses about the “elite “ assholes who play golf and their crony capitalist culture being the real enemy.
Seems more than a few would be reachable, no?
Keep that picture of Trump, Clinton and Bloomberg together on the fairway handy.
livestock is literally the lowest category of usage on the Colorado river, its horrible land for it.
grass, intensive cash crops like almonds, and flood irrigation need curbed
I think that’s misleading because although livestock don’t directly use a lot of water…
Irrigation of crops is the largest offstream use of water in the CRB, averaging 85% of total offstream use
And a lot of those crops are no doubt food for livestock.
reducing irrigation is absolute. it doesnt matter if it was 100% for human consumption, it must go down.
That’s not accounting for cattle feed, which is an enormous land and water use, and drives the concentration of human-destined crops into places like California
Is cattle feed typically grown locally? I’d think corn/grains at least would be shipped in. I don’t know if its economically viable to ship bales of hay in.
It’s amazing some of these chuds want to kill fbi agents or overthrow the government in favor of their flavor christian nationalism, but giving up steak and watering their lawns so they don’t lose their hydroelectricity or just die of thirst is a step too far. Peoples sense of what constitutes a sacrifice is completely out of whack.
but giving up steak
they don’t even have to give up steak, they just have to not gorge on it like subhuman fucking fatasses
average amerishart eats 55 lbs of beef a year
I tracked my own consumption and it came to 15 lbs a year
Chinese consumption is about 15 lbs a year
Europena consumption is 30 lbs a year
How the fuck do you even crave a pound of beef every week? Like, in addition to the other meat/fish/poultry that you eat? What the fuck?
I don’t think most of them can really imagine and internalize the reality of consequences. They’re still locked in to just world fantasies where nothing bad will happen to them and they’ll always come out on top somehow. Just not having water is too big in scale for them to cope with.
You would have to genocide the ranchers to get them to stop raising cattle. Like you’d literally have to go to war and hunt them down all across the west.
It’s going to be interesting to see the reaction to the federal government dictating what cuts these states will make.
Idk but it’s going to be hilarious watching the government actually do something when there are god knows how many billions of dollars worth of capitalists, some percentage of whom are just going to be screwed. Deciding which states and cities will live and which will die is exactly the kind of central planning the US was built to make impossible.
Great Lakes Region: Buckle up, motherfuckers. We’re coming for our water. Sincerely, the ghost of William Mulholland
Yeah if I was Chicago I’d be forming a regional coalition to fortify the Mississippi. Maybe build some gun boats.
this is getting cliché, but remember not to get addicted to water my friends…
