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."
Even the IPCC is straight up saying this now. If we don't radically rebuild our economic system, this problem is not going to be solved in time to make a difference (and may not be solvable at all). The fact that a UN-affiliated, relatively conservative scientific body that, just a few decades ago, was unwilling to make any policy recommendations at all for fear of being seen as biased is now explicitly saying that our survival depends on dismantling global capitalism represents a screaming red alert klaxon going off, and yet there's been basically no discussion of this at all in the mainstream media. The science is unequivocal: capitalism is literally killing us all.
Even the IPCC is straight up saying this now. If we don't radically rebuild our economic system, this problem is not going to be solved in time to make a difference (and may not be solvable at all). The fact that a UN-affiliated, relatively conservative scientific body that, just a few decades ago, was unwilling to make any policy recommendations at all for fear of being seen as biased is now explicitly saying that our survival depends on dismantling global capitalism represents a screaming red alert klaxon going off, and yet there's been basically no discussion of this at all in the mainstream media. The science is unequivocal: capitalism is literally killing us all.