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Maybe if we stopped exporting agriculture from California to China, there would be plenty of water? https://hayandforage.com/article-3388-thank-china-for-recor
by wintermutestwin 5y ago
Maybe if we stopped exporting agriculture from California to China, there would be plenty of water?
https://hayandforage.com/article-3388-thank-china-for-record-alfalfa-hay-exports.html https://hayandforage.com/article-3388-thank-china-for-record...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/04/03/agriculture-is-80-percent-of-water-use-in-california-why-arent-farmers-being-forced-to-cut-back/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2015/04/03/a...
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26124989 https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-26124989
edit: I am puzzled as to why eliminating this one massive water use needs to be clarified. Exporting to China (or any other country) is purely a for profit endeavor that is using a large % of CA's water. Many farmers argue for the need to feed the US and I am not against that idea (in principle).
- BurningFrog 5y agoLots of typical Californian "we should stop doing things!" in this sad thread...
- _8j50 5y agoDo you have another customer in mind or are you asking the exporters to deal with it?
- CogitoCogito 5y ago> Do you have another customer in mind or are you asking the exporters to deal with it? I believe the gp is saying it shouldn't be exported _at all_ and hence there should be no customers (outside California anyway).
- _8j50 5y agoI know but that is loss of business. Who will absorb that loss? Subsidize it and tax payers absorb it like much is done in farming? Or just let the farmers lose?
- pengaru 5y agoWhy you would single out CA's exports to .cn is beyond me, it's more an issue of CA agriculture in general. CA feeds a lot more out of state mouths than just the Chinese.
- adrianmonk 5y ago> if we stopped exporting agriculture from California Just make the customers pay in water?