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Good, the gordian knot needed to be cut. 165 years of near-unrestricted use of the flowing commons needed a stop.
by mmanfrin 11y ago
Good, the gordian knot needed to be cut. 165 years of near-unrestricted use of the flowing commons needed a stop.
- dragonwriter 11y agoThis isn't cutting any Gordian knot; this is just flow being insufficient to meet the demands of rights holders with certain priorities. (And its not about farmers except incidentally, not all the affected rights-holders are farmers, and its just based on the priority dates of certain senior rights holders in certain watersheds, not whether they are agricultural or other kinds of users.)
- saosebastiao 11y agoNow if only they would follow the 200 year old recommendation of economists and put a price on it. EDIT: To clarify, consensus on the role of prices on economic allocation goes back to Adam Smith, but using prices specifically to regulate allocation of natural resources only really goes back to Henry George, which I guess is a bit younger than California's misuse of water. Regardless, we're still about a century behind economists in knowing exactly what to do about this problem.