And have the people upstream of the Colorado River pour in vats of VX to own the commiefornians? Joking on that last bit, but the reliance on the Colorado River isn't.
Cali nerds need to get their water situation under control if they really want to set themselves on the path to autarky
Gotta get all the toxins out of the soil we put there somehow. Hemp works well at remediating and it'll grow well enough, considering you're not really worrying about the crop being desirable.
that's really neat actually. I have a vague interest, mainly watching a few scant videos every once in a while, in ecological restoration work and bio-rediversification, so hearing this kind of stuff's gives me the sort of positive brain tinglies.
What do you do with the resulting toxic hemp though? It’s just a repackaged heavy metal that’s going to get composted back into the dirt at some point.
That's a good question. I imagine sequestration, extracting the heavy metals and using it for industrial purposes, or extreme dilution (the old saying "The solution to pollution is dilution" is true, you just have to do it right. They're all naturally occurring elements, it's just the concentrations that are toxic.)
Yes. That shit is fucked up. Mind you, if California operated desalinization plants and shut down all golf courses and fake-ass suburban lawns, it would be more viable.
I should also add that as a Midwesterner, I am prepared to fight Californians to the death in the Water Wars. They can take Minnesota over my cold, dead body.
California could make it work, provided they embraced communism.
And have the people upstream of the Colorado River pour in vats of VX to own the commiefornians? Joking on that last bit, but the reliance on the Colorado River isn't.
Cali nerds need to get their water situation under control if they really want to set themselves on the path to autarky
I don't know where the upstream states get most of their food but surely that's something California could leverage
pretty much my thoughts on it, just gotta raze las vegas and phoenix, and you'll be set.
Replace them with solar farms and soil remediation fields. Nothing of value will be lost destroying those two monuments to settler-colonial hubris.
in the desert? would that actually work out there?
Gotta get all the toxins out of the soil we put there somehow. Hemp works well at remediating and it'll grow well enough, considering you're not really worrying about the crop being desirable.
that's really neat actually. I have a vague interest, mainly watching a few scant videos every once in a while, in ecological restoration work and bio-rediversification, so hearing this kind of stuff's gives me the sort of positive brain tinglies.
What do you do with the resulting toxic hemp though? It’s just a repackaged heavy metal that’s going to get composted back into the dirt at some point.
That's a good question. I imagine sequestration, extracting the heavy metals and using it for industrial purposes, or extreme dilution (the old saying "The solution to pollution is dilution" is true, you just have to do it right. They're all naturally occurring elements, it's just the concentrations that are toxic.)
Isn't there something about water? Like doesn't most of Californias water come from other states?
Yes. That shit is fucked up. Mind you, if California operated desalinization plants and shut down all golf courses and fake-ass suburban lawns, it would be more viable.
I should also add that as a Midwesterner, I am prepared to fight Californians to the death in the Water Wars. They can take Minnesota over my cold, dead body.
Minnesota will from henceforth be "Northern California". We will drain lake Superior for our lawns and carwashes.