Just in time for overlapping "rare" weather phenomena to start stacking up, in the past two days we've had a hurricane in Iowa and two tornados in california in the same day as 20 wildfires simultaneously sparked during a dry lightning storm. Every single day of this fucking year has been escalating insanity.
One of few things I take solace in is that these rural areas being ravaged by fires have displaced a shitload of chuds who will now be relying on mutual aid organizations and by extension a whole lot of anarchists that they purportely hate/fear to not starve because they've been voting against building any sort of social safety net for decades.
I mean when they're forced to evacuate into cities which is already happening. A bunch of them came into where I work because they've been evacuated. First time I've seen a Trump 2020 keep america great face mask in person.
Legit question: if socialists somehow took power in the US tomorrow, would a mass migration of people from Arizona/NM/other places that defy god simply by existing be a goal?
I'm not sure what the right thing to do would be. Indigenous people have lived in these places for hundreds or thousands of years, so humans can live here without wrecking the ecosystem, but the consumption now is insane.
Most of the water in the west goes to agriculture. I think a lot of it is wasteful and is spent on crops that demand a lot of water, or ends up feeding cows, which is inefficient. People also have green lawns and love to golf out here, which, while not on the same scale as the industrialized agriculture business, is still wasteful and indicative of people's attitudes towards water conservation.
Yeah, if we could somehow turn all the cow pastures into soybean farms or whatever and live with water friendly lawns, it would definitely ease the pressure on the water supply
And if we concentrated populations in those large cities like SF that are close to agricultural centers it vastly increases efficiency of distribution of crops.
NGL I'm not sure how much denser you could really make SF without basically levelling it and starting from scratch. The streets are already crazy dense
SF absolutely needs to grow "up" to accommodate more housing. So many single family houses that could be replaced with multifamily dwellings if not for the power weilded by outspoken homeowners who bought 20 years ago and now own a $1.6 million bungalow.
How fucked up is it that a bunch of drunk extremely online nerds could probably craft better, more efficient, more humane policy than literally 90% of people in office?
I would say yes. We should be doing shit like fixing the decaying infrastructure in the rust belt and rebuilding manufacturing with nationalized industry. Also breaking up Amazon and Tesla and assimilating their respective components into public ownership, e.g. NASA, USPS (this would include taking over UPS and FedEx), Department of Energy, etc.
What about a place like LA? We're in the middle of earthquake, wildfire, and drought country, and the whole place has been built to basically be inaccessible without private automobiles, but also it's the 2nd largest city...
LA was built on a desert, the whole place was a mistake. Yes it's massive but we can fit a lot more people in a lot of big cities if we're talking about a socialist government. Useless offices full of paper pushing unproductive labor could be used for mixed use public housing, services etc. Entire buildings sit empty just because they're investment properties.
The dryness is the new normal. The last 400 years or so have been uncommonly wet as compared to the last 10 million in California and it looks like we're now seeing a reversion to the mean
Just in time for overlapping "rare" weather phenomena to start stacking up, in the past two days we've had a hurricane in Iowa and two tornados in california in the same day as 20 wildfires simultaneously sparked during a dry lightning storm. Every single day of this fucking year has been escalating insanity.
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It's insane that so many people depend on the Colorado River for water in the west, there should not be millions of people living in the desert.
One of few things I take solace in is that these rural areas being ravaged by fires have displaced a shitload of chuds who will now be relying on mutual aid organizations and by extension a whole lot of anarchists that they purportely hate/fear to not starve because they've been voting against building any sort of social safety net for decades.
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I mean when they're forced to evacuate into cities which is already happening. A bunch of them came into where I work because they've been evacuated. First time I've seen a Trump 2020 keep america great face mask in person.
Legit question: if socialists somehow took power in the US tomorrow, would a mass migration of people from Arizona/NM/other places that defy god simply by existing be a goal?
I'm not sure what the right thing to do would be. Indigenous people have lived in these places for hundreds or thousands of years, so humans can live here without wrecking the ecosystem, but the consumption now is insane.
Most of the water in the west goes to agriculture. I think a lot of it is wasteful and is spent on crops that demand a lot of water, or ends up feeding cows, which is inefficient. People also have green lawns and love to golf out here, which, while not on the same scale as the industrialized agriculture business, is still wasteful and indicative of people's attitudes towards water conservation.
https://www.csgwest.org/policy/WesternWaterUsage.aspx
Yeah, if we could somehow turn all the cow pastures into soybean farms or whatever and live with water friendly lawns, it would definitely ease the pressure on the water supply
And if we concentrated populations in those large cities like SF that are close to agricultural centers it vastly increases efficiency of distribution of crops.
NGL I'm not sure how much denser you could really make SF without basically levelling it and starting from scratch. The streets are already crazy dense
Thing is it's all artificial scarcity when it comes to housing. There's a lot of dumb NIMBY zoning laws and a lot of capacity for public housing.
And the traffic problems can be alleviate with robust public transit.
SF absolutely needs to grow "up" to accommodate more housing. So many single family houses that could be replaced with multifamily dwellings if not for the power weilded by outspoken homeowners who bought 20 years ago and now own a $1.6 million bungalow.
How fucked up is it that a bunch of drunk extremely online nerds could probably craft better, more efficient, more humane policy than literally 90% of people in office?
I would say yes. We should be doing shit like fixing the decaying infrastructure in the rust belt and rebuilding manufacturing with nationalized industry. Also breaking up Amazon and Tesla and assimilating their respective components into public ownership, e.g. NASA, USPS (this would include taking over UPS and FedEx), Department of Energy, etc.
What about a place like LA? We're in the middle of earthquake, wildfire, and drought country, and the whole place has been built to basically be inaccessible without private automobiles, but also it's the 2nd largest city...
LA was built on a desert, the whole place was a mistake. Yes it's massive but we can fit a lot more people in a lot of big cities if we're talking about a socialist government. Useless offices full of paper pushing unproductive labor could be used for mixed use public housing, services etc. Entire buildings sit empty just because they're investment properties.
The dryness is the new normal. The last 400 years or so have been uncommonly wet as compared to the last 10 million in California and it looks like we're now seeing a reversion to the mean
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One of them was just an actual tornado. It was part of the lightning storm that started the fires.
In the same day we had a tornado caused by fire and 20 fires caused by a storm that included a tornado.
This is some apocalyptic shit.