5 ms·
I have a friend who grew up and has lived in socal for most of their life. When I mentioned the reporting on extreme drought for this year, they just responded
by draw_down 4y ago
I have a friend who grew up and has lived in socal for most of their life. When I mentioned the reporting on extreme drought for this year, they just responded “oh they say that every year”. So I wonder how reflective that is of the mentality of area residents, even if superficially it could appear otherwise.
- imperialdrive 4y agoI've observed much of same. (Not sure why you got downvoted.)
- bsenftner 4y agoI just SoCal 2 years ago after living there for 33 years. The mythic California of sun and fun is looooooooong gone.
- nullc 4y agoThere is a tremendous amount of wolf crying-- particularly calling for straw-ban-grade ineffective residential water use reductions (esp as agriculture is 80% of the water use). Disbelief is the long term effect of all the crying wolf.
- marcosdumay 4y agoI don't even live on the US, and I remember articles predicting aquifer lose and water shortages in California since I was a child. The point is, those articles tend to come with date targets. The people saying "they always said it and it never happened" are either stupid ones that don't care about the "by 2030" right next to the prediction, or ones that get their news from the first group.
- formerkrogemp 4y agoHydrologists have been saying this sort of thing to anyone who would listen for decades. Various government reports and publications such as the IPCC reports have been predicting this what feels like a lifetime. The slow moving train might move at 2 mph, but it can still squash you if you don't move out of the way.