CA Canals Sinking Because Of Groundwater Pumping; Agribusiness - Public Should Pay To Fix It

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1. A more serious issue is the damage done to groundwater by fracking in the San Joaquin Valley.

Beside the issue of ground water depletion, pollution of ground water permanently by these dangerous fossil fuel mining activities while we all await the "renewable energy" nirvana in California (and elsewhere) that did not come, is not here, and won't come is a very serious matter. Kern county holds major oil/gas fields.

About 10% of sea level rise is attributable to the volatilization of ground water mined for agricultural purposes.

While we can all feel free to bash "agribusiness" the bottom line is that they are in the business of providing food for something like 8 billion people. The destructive mining of ground water is another way, besides waiting forever and forever and forever with "by 2000," and "by 2010" and "by 2020" and "by 2030" and "by 2040" and "by 2050" statements for the magical outbreak of the so called "renewable energy" nirvana is another way we are screwing future generations, asking them to do what we were too bourgeois to bother to do ourselves.

The coastal and interior mountain ranges of California, between which the highly productive San Joaquin is situated offer remarkable features for the possible restoration of groundwater using desalination via a system of heat networks, and heat exchangers but it won't happen. When the San Joaquin is strip mined of ground water, it will be a great desert to trash with wind turbines, I guess.

This is the world for which many of us cheer.

It is easy to pick out "bad guys," and wag our fingers at them but if we really, really, really, really wanted to do that, find bad guys, the use of a mirror would be a good place to start.

History will not forgive us, nor should it.