California Drought Tests History of Endless Growth

Article CAIRCO note: 
Mass immigration is driving US population to double this century
Article author: 
Adam Nagourney, Jack Healy, Nelson D. Schwartz
Article publisher: 
New York Times
Article date: 
7 April 2015
Article category: 
Our American Future
Tags: 
environment
water
growth
population
immigration
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...For more than a century, California has been the state where people flocked for a better life — 164,000 square miles of mountains, farmland and coastline, shimmering with ambition and dreams, money and beauty...

The 25 percent cut in water consumption ordered by Gov. Jerry Brown raises fundamental questions about what life in California will be like in the years ahead, and even whether this state faces the prospect of people leaving for wetter climates ...

These days, the economy is thriving, the population is growing, the state budget is in surplus, and development is exploding from Silicon Valley to San Diego...

“Mother Nature didn’t intend for 40 million people to live here,” said Kevin Starr, a historian at the University of Southern California who has written extensively about this state. “This is literally a culture that since the 1880s has progressively invented, invented and reinvented itself. At what point does this invention begin to hit limits?”
 
California, Dr. Starr said, “is not going to go under, but we are going to have to go in a different way.”
 
An estimated 38.8 million people live in California today, more than double the 15.7 million people who lived here in 1960, and the state’s labor force exploded to 18.9 million in 2013 from 6.4 million people in 1960...

For over 10,000 years, people lived in California, but the number of those people were never more than 300,000 or 400,000,” Mr. Brown said. “Now we are embarked upon an experiment that no one has ever tried: 38 million people, with 32 million vehicles,..

 


CAIRCO Notes

Mass immigration is driving US population to double this century.

It Takes How Much Water to Grow an Almond?!

Population Driven to Double by Mass Immigration

How many illegal aliens reside in the United States?

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