“The essential point: California has never had enough water. The current drought is simply the latest evidence that this is a dry land, not “susceptible of supp

“The essential point: California has never had enough water. The current drought is simply the latest evidence that this is a dry land, not “susceptible of supporting a very large population,” as an American military officer wrote in the 1840s. 2 But of course the region has shown itself more than susceptible of supporting — or at least attracting — a very large population.” Expressing these truths on the oh so liberal internet is treated as a thought crime. However, it is as the author says, “the essential point.”