According to the latest report from the US Drought Monitor, two of the state's largest reservoirs — Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville — are at "critically low levels."
Yes. That's the exact fucking opposite of the way we need to think of it. It needs to be thought of as a basic human right for survival and not a commodity to be misallocated by a "free market" that values profit over human life, life in general, let alone environmental sustainability. Preaching to the choir, I know, but this is how even otherwise well-meaning people poisoned by capitalist realism are going to be the death of us all.
Yes. That's the exact fucking opposite of the way we need to think of it. It needs to be thought of as a basic human right for survival and not a commodity to be misallocated by a "free market" that values profit over human life, life in general, let alone environmental sustainability. Preaching to the choir, I know, but this is how even otherwise well-meaning people poisoned by capitalist realism are going to be the death of us all.
fuck we are going to be charged "variable market rates" for our water hookups in a few years, all across the U.S., aren't we?
Oh yeah