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Kablooie

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10. The people that need to accept climate change ...

Reply to JDPriestly (Reply #4)

Tue Sep 30, 2014, 04:36 AM

Sep 2014

are the same ones that will still be able to buy all the luxury foods they want no matter how many others are starving.

Until the polluting companies see profit in adapting to climate change they will continue to block all efforts to deal with it.

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California Harvest much Smaller than Normal across Crops [View all] antiquie Sep 2014 OP

I guess this was to be expected. Mr.Bill Sep 2014 #1

I fear you are correct. antiquie Sep 2014 #2

If California agriculture collapses Mr.Bill Sep 2014 #3

Will this cause people to stop and think about the prospect of global climate change? JDPriestly Sep 2014 #4

spot on…. dhill926 Sep 2014 #5

Exactly, since we cannot do it yesterday. antiquie Sep 2014 #6

The people that need to accept climate change ... Kablooie Sep 2014 #10

California should not be growing rice kiri Sep 2014 #7

The parts of CA that grow rice are flood zones LeftyMom Sep 2014 #8

Yep. pinto Sep 2014 #9

Asia imports California rice. antiquie Sep 2014 #11

I would have thought the draught would have put a stop to housing development. mackerel Oct 2014 #12

I was driving up I-5 in August, and I noticed a completely dead nut orchard petronius Oct 2014 #13

I just drove that section this last weekend Brother Buzz Oct 2014 #14

Interesting, thanks! So maybe not a drought thing, just something that hadn't petronius Oct 2014 #15