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Egalitarian Thug

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12. Certainly an important issue, but it misrepresents reality by depending on the fact that

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Mon Feb 24, 2014, 04:27 PM

Feb 2014

so few people have any idea how much water it takes to grow all food using the methods we do.

Drive up the 99 in the summer and you will see mile after mile after mile of sprinklers throwing water into the air. Everywhere you go you will see the same problems with agriculture in California, basically it's a refusal to invest in the future while demanding ever-increasing profits be extracted from the state's natural resources.

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Certainly an important issue, but it misrepresents reality by depending on the fact that Egalitarian Thug Feb 2014 #12