> It distorted the economy, encouraging people to build unsustainable industries and communities in the middle of the desert.
The central valley in California is not a desert. It has never been a desert. You seem to be confusing it with Southern California. Central California naturally contained one of the largest groundwater basins in the US, large rivers and lakes. For a couple million years, the whole thing was a giant lake for goodness sakes.
It is an agricultural area whose output and scale dwarfs anything else on Earth because it has both ideal growing weather, exceptional soil and normally more than enough water and because we have a drought once every 50 to 100 years, it all of a sudden unsustainable?
The central valley in California is not a desert. It has never been a desert. You seem to be confusing it with Southern California. Central California naturally contained one of the largest groundwater basins in the US, large rivers and lakes. For a couple million years, the whole thing was a giant lake for goodness sakes.
It is an agricultural area whose output and scale dwarfs anything else on Earth because it has both ideal growing weather, exceptional soil and normally more than enough water and because we have a drought once every 50 to 100 years, it all of a sudden unsustainable?
Where do you think we should grow crops? Eden?