Drought: Sierra snowpack 'worst in a century'

[NickB79]

14. It's one fourth of the US supply of fruits and vegetables, actually

Still a lot, but not nearly 1/4 of the world. And the solution is simple: stop relying on one state to supply so much of our food.

More local eating, less reliance on trucking produce 2,000 miles to get to customers. Utilize farmers markets and small-scale, diversified farms and CSA's, or better yet grow a garden and plant some fruit trees in your backyard. More seasonal eating as well. Want fresh watermelon in January in Minnesota? Crazy talk. Eat some pickled beets and sauerkraut you canned yourself in the fall.

I know it sounds harsh and glib, but it's the reality we'll all face soon enough. What we're seeing now is climate change with *only* 0.8C of warming; we've pretty much locked in 2C or more of warming in the next few decades with atmospheric CO2 at the highest level in 3 million years.

We're watching the end of an era, and ultimately there's nothing we can do to maintain the status quo in the long term.