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It's silly to blame the people who buy strawberries and almonds for the water problems in California. If California wasn't growing them already, people wouldn't
by jtbayly 4y ago
It's silly to blame the people who buy strawberries and almonds for the water problems in California. If California wasn't growing them already, people wouldn't be buying them from California.
- scythe 4y agoCalifornia doesn't merely produce "fun" foods. Most of the agricultural land outside California is being applied to its most economically efficient use case. Plenty of the remaining viable land is ecologically valuable in itself. There's no scenario where agricultural production plummets in CA yet remains steady in the US as a whole. >If California wasn't growing them already, people wouldn't be buying them from California. The history of the region begs to differ. Water management in the West was deliberately pursued by the federal government to promote agriculture.
- luma 4y agoTheir use might be economically efficient but it seems like it isn’t ecologically sustainable.
- jtbayly 4y agoI never said anything about fun foods or whether things were economically efficient. I simply said it's absurd to blame consumers in Ohio for lack of water in California. If you want to blame politicians, go for it. If you want to blame California farmers for it, be my guest. But if everybody in the midwest stopped buying CA food, that wouldn't change anything in CA. It's not up to the OH consumer to fix CA farmer problems.