> Without your farmers you starve From what I understand most of California's agricultural throughput goes to exports. Japan may have their rice farmers, howev

> Without your farmers you starve From what I understand most of California's agricultural throughput goes to exports. Japan may have their rice farmers, however in terms of area the US is 24 times bigger than Japan, with only 2.5 times the population. So that's comparing apples and oranges. On the other hand, food you can import so your assertion is wrong. However if water goes out, then you will either move or die of thirst ;-)