I. Love. Gavin. Newsom.

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Link to tweet

[dixiechiken1]

1. Future POTUS.

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2. Your reply gave me a HUGE smile

Wouldn't that be GREAT????

[dixiechiken1]

3. It would be AWESOME!

Been completely in love with him since he was Mayor of San Francisco. Smart, well-spoken, progressive... and eye candy to boot! What's not to love, right?

[ailsagirl]

5. That's right!

He's the perfect governor for California-- he's so much on our side (remember Arno?)!!!

[TDale313]

4. So proud of our Governor.

Live in the Bay Area, so have been following him and Sen Harris for a very long time. They’re making us proud 🙂

[ailsagirl]

6. They surely are!!!

[dhill926]

7. Soooo glad we moved here from Indiana...

14 years ago.

[ailsagirl]

8. Cool!!

A belated welcome!!

[dhill926]

9. Gracias!

[Warpy]

10. If there is a net migration out of the state, that might just be possible.

Otherwise, developers are just going to increase sprawl into dangerous fire zones. They won't rethink the architecture, either.

[hunter]

11. If we ate less beef and dairy products we could restore a lot of land...

... currently used by those industries.

For example, California currently exports alfalfa to Saudi Arabia to feed cows there.

Four hours east of Los Angeles, in a drought-stricken area of a drought-afflicted state, is a small town called Blythe where alfalfa is king. More than half of the town’s 94,000 acres are bushy blue-green fields growing the crop.

Massive industrial storehouses line the southern end of town, packed with thousands upon thousands of stacks of alfalfa bales ready to be fed to dairy cows – but not cows in California’s Central Valley or Montana’s rangelands.

Instead, the alfalfa will be fed to cows in Saudi Arabia.

The storehouses belong to Fondomonte Farms, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia-based company Almarai – one of the largest food production companies in the world. The company sells milk, powdered milk and packaged items such as croissants, strudels and cupcakes in supermarkets and corner stores throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and in specialty grocers throughout the US.

Each month, Fondomonte Farms loads the alfalfa on to hulking metal shipping containers destined to arrive 24 days later at a massive port stationed on the Red Sea, just outside King Abdullah City in Saudi Arabia.

--more--

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-water-drought-scarce-saudi-arabia

Beef and dairy do have a place in land management strategies, cows grazing on green and golden hillsides, but most of the beef and dairy industry doesn't look like that. It's factory farms, cows crowded onto great mountains of shit eating silage grown with scarce water.

Huge factory slaughterhouses are some of the worst places to work, and the work is often done by undocumented workers who are frequently abused. When they can no longer do the work, or they begin to organize and complain about working conditions, they are simply replaced.

[Warpy]

12. At least alfalfa fixes nitrogen and builds the soil

but I see your point for a lot of areas, Costa Rica in particular has been devastated as rainforest has been cut down to provide pasturage for beef cattle and they're not alone.

Where there are farmers, there will be cash crops. A lot of farming in California might soon become unfeasible if we get many more years like this one, a heat dome lasting for months parked over the west.