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> Too much is available for agriculture, and too little is available for the people. California is probably overpopulated. You can tweak agriculture policy all
by a8da6b0c91d 11y ago
> Too much is available for agriculture, and too little is available for the people.
California is probably overpopulated. You can tweak agriculture policy all you want, but we can't pretend there isn't an inevitable problem with trying to support ever more people in a mostly arid region.
- dpark 11y agoCalifornia does not consume most of what it produces agriculturally. Most of it is exported to the rest of the United States and beyond. If California were only producing enough food for its own residents, there would be no water shortage. Of course, you'd probably have no lettuce in your grocery store then (unless you live in California). The point is that California is not overpopulated by the "enough water for its people" metric. Most of the water use in California is to grow crops that are sent out of state.