We do have a more mild climate than a lot of areas in the US, but we also have a major ongoing water crisis. It’s doubtful if, in the coming decades the public water system will be able to support current residents, much less 2,3 or 4x our current population.
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That depends. Will the bulk of California water continue going to agriculture at deeply discounted prices? Will the state take up desalination? (Or will it prefer both fish and zucchini over people?)
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Desalination, an ultra expensive idea that once again depends on Victorian-Era philosophy that all natural resources are infinite. Draining the ocean and killing all life in it, is not a pro-environmental idea.
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So we should give up our rights, pay a fortune more for water and ruin the environment to enrich developers? No on
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Let’s pack all 325 mil American into California, ignore that 1/2 State is desert, drain the ocean, and end all in-state agriculture. WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?
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Good planning isn't wall building as YIMBYs falsely frame. It's planning what can be reasonably accommodated. Endless job growth which YIMBYs want to accelerate should be questioned. YIMBY tech CEO contributors & some VCs supporters underscore this "growth is good" agenda.
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I always wonder why no YIMBYs think encouraging companies to move into areas that are water-secure and need jobs (northern mid west) is NOT a good idea, and neither is encouraging more telecommuting?
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Well, perhaps because a car-free resident of the cold midwest emits about as much carbon as a driving Californian, and most midwesterners must also drive. Perhaps also because that would be a hopeless effort, like trying to turn gravity upside down.
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I think we're being told CA has to "take one for the team" - we have to shut up because this is about climate change & the YIMBY rapid urbanization "solution" has been decided to be the only way. All part of the playbook.
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We are also being told that all other parts of the US are inherently awful and NO ONE will ever want to live there. I don’t know about you, but Ive actually traveled quite a bit, and there are a lot of beautiful, cities that offer great quality of life. Regionism is ugly
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Yes and a lot of my friends who are social workers and doctors and public health researchers and artists are all going to those great cities bc Northern California has an invisible border wall around it put up by “progressives”
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I'm seeing friends leaving CA because of congestion, taxes and concerned by rapid urbanization that would be worsened by
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Maybe they’re cashing out of their million dollar homes to retire somewhere else.
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