LA is big, for sure, but it's running out of water. By the time collapse happens, without the ridiculous amount of infrastructure to transport drinking water from NorCal and the Colorado River via Lake Mead, it'll be a ghost town. It sounds out of this world and fantastical, but it isn't sustainable and 20/30 years down the line, I could see it being much more difficult to live there
I just assume in a real balkinization situation, LA would just conquer or try to conquer the rest of California plus take Las Vegas and parts of Arizona in order to secure the Colorado River.
Perhaps Greater Los Angeles is a possibility, but Vegas, Nevada, and Arizona are in the same dire straits as socal. Without the millions of acre feet each year, these hubs of humanity crumble. I also wonder how they could annex surrounding territory in this scenario
LA is big, for sure, but it's running out of water. By the time collapse happens, without the ridiculous amount of infrastructure to transport drinking water from NorCal and the Colorado River via Lake Mead, it'll be a ghost town. It sounds out of this world and fantastical, but it isn't sustainable and 20/30 years down the line, I could see it being much more difficult to live there
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I just assume in a real balkinization situation, LA would just conquer or try to conquer the rest of California plus take Las Vegas and parts of Arizona in order to secure the Colorado River.
Perhaps Greater Los Angeles is a possibility, but Vegas, Nevada, and Arizona are in the same dire straits as socal. Without the millions of acre feet each year, these hubs of humanity crumble. I also wonder how they could annex surrounding territory in this scenario
I assumed this as well, but SoCal would end up battling/diplomacy all the way to Sacramento for water.