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What an inane comparison. You can't eat apps. Well, actually we can, in the same way we can "grow cars in Iowa" (to borrow an example from economist Steven La
by hn9780470248775 11y ago
What an inane comparison. You can't eat apps.
Well, actually we can, in the same way we can "grow cars in Iowa" (to borrow an example from economist Steven Landsburg). But do we want to?
- adventured 11y agoIt's not inane. Look up how much of California's water is exported to other countries in the form of agriculture products. See: China's consumption of the California almond crop.
- jkyle 11y agoCA is a major exporter of agriculture. It can grow enough food to supply itself even with aggressive curtailing of agricultural output. If CA cities start running out of water supply, businesses will be affected. The ones that carry our GDP. If you're implying that cutting back CA Ag production would be a national harm, then the nation needs to pull it together and help CA support the industry. But in the end, this is just simple math. You can't solve CA's water crisis by only targeting residential usage. It's simply not a big enough slice of the pie.
- yellowapple 11y agoIt's not a bigger slice of the pie than agriculture, true, but it's a slice that's much easier to fix. This isn't to say that we shouldn't try to fix agricultural water consumption. Just that the calls to cut off agricultural water because "oh no they use 80% of the water" seem to reflect misplaced priorities.