California Chokes Off Its Middle Class
Conn Carroll, Washington Examiner
For all the bed-wetting environmentalists do over how climate change might affect the present ecosystems of California, they always seem to conveniently forget what the state looked like before it joined the Union.Left to nature, the Los Angeles River could support maybe 250,000 people. But thanks to human terraforming, the Los Angeles Basin now supports a population of almost 4 million and an economy worth $831 billion.Just north of Los Angeles, the San Joaquin Valley used be a barren desert. But now, thanks to human engineering, dams, canals and aqueducts have transformed the Central Valley...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/03/01/california_chokes_off_its_middle_class_303074.html
http://washingtonexaminer.com/california-in-crisis-green-state-chokes-off-its-middle-class/article/2522861
For all the bed-wetting environmentalists do over how climate change might affect the present ecosystems of California, they always seem to conveniently forget what the state looked like before it joined the Union.Left to nature, the Los Angeles River could support maybe 250,000 people. But thanks to human terraforming, the Los Angeles Basin now supports a population of almost 4 million and an economy worth $831 billion.Just north of Los Angeles, the San Joaquin Valley used be a barren desert. But now, thanks to human engineering, dams, canals and aqueducts have transformed the Central Valley...http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2013/03/01/california_chokes_off_its_middle_class_303074.html
http://washingtonexaminer.com/california-in-crisis-green-state-chokes-off-its-middle-class/article/2522861
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