"I am the Lorax, I speak for the trees!"
But no response came, excepting some bees
Who were buzzing about, but only a few
For when you're dying out, being few's what you do.

All of a sudden, a voice: "Step aside."
It came from a man who stepped less than did glide
He spoke this to the humans, expelling no breath:
"I AM THE REAPER, I SPEAK FOR YOUR DEATH."

At the very least can we give up on the concept of lawns.

You mean changes like fewer green lawn regulations in California suburbs, decrease the surplus population, stop trying to grow crops in the desert, outlaw golf, and bolster the rain dance youth leagues in Oregon and Washington?

Do away with green lawn laws - YES! To reduce water & fertilizer consumption and pesticide & herbicide use.

Decrease the surplus population - Start by killing yourself (Seriously? That was LITERALLY an Ebenezer Scrooge quote. What in Hell is wrong with you?)

Stop trying to grow crops in the desert - YES! In fact, our whole agricultural model needs major changes.

Outlaw golf - Not necessarily, just learn to play it on a non-grassy landscape. I don't like golf, but a lot of people do.

Bolster rain dance youth leagues - YES! Not because it will work, but because it will be fun to watch.

The last drought I really remember in Oregon was back in 199X..something.. it was a long time ago. And yeah everyones' lawns were just dry and dead. I think sprinklers were illegal. I was pretty young and didn't own a home but I didn't care.

California needs to learn how to play Gitmo golf. At Gitmo is in a desert and the golf course is just dry dirt with astro turf patches for the around the holes and driving areas.

Ebeneezer what now?

Obviously that was intentional, but the fact remains that Socal has more people than it can feasibly sustain. Good tacos, though.

I have talked with a number of people here who don't give a fuck what anyone says. Their lawn is theirs. They can do with it what they want. They are gonna keep watering it because its pretty.

These people are fucking assholes so the laws need to make it totally illegal to water a lawn at all.

The fun thing is, we could rip out the lawns and evacuate the cities and we'd still be screwed. California's agriculture is using the majority of its water, and even if the state was depopulated there still wouldn't be enough water left to continue farming at current levels. And that's a huge problem for the rest of the country because California is incredibly fertile and any American who doesn't want to survive exclusively off corn is relying on it.

If it scares the government into investing in desalinization and large scale water collection from people's homes and backyards, I think those emergency actions should be taken.

With the growing popularity of the Near Term Extinction movement and the general militant polarization of the populace between deniers and alarmists, if climate scientists ever want to remain unlynched, they better never admit they exaggerated anything.

I would personally punch one in the face if I ever caught them doing that. That shit is not amusing.

BACK into a desert, you mean?

it never stopped being a desert

California is ONE ECOSYSTEM, you guys.

hey now, we're a subtropical desert steppe at the least.

I just moved to California, and I am having a difficult time getting used to it, coming from the Pacific Northwest as I do, and Scotland before that. It is very very dry here, whereas where I had lived before had been very damp. But my new colleague is from Phoenix, so she thinks I'm crazy.

where to?

have you gloated to any east coast friends or relatives yet?

Socal = Desert. Bay area and northern cali are much greener/wetter.

Mothership, we should totally hang out, just 2 bros, doing bro stuff.

there's this VICE doc I found right after watching this. It's incredibly depressing.

https://youtu.be/lmUwjk4S3gw

You get spiders? Lucky. Here in Long Beach, we just get illegal fireworks and leftover well drinks from all the gay bars down Broadway on the taps.

More seriously, the big issue is the long term future of agriculture in the state given the shrinking water allotments. Urban water use is a rather small percentage of total water usage and for the state as a whole, gone down.

Black Widows always come out of the tap, water or no.

It's a California thing, like the earthquakes.

I love sweeping the leaves with the garden hose just because.


Multiple desal plants are the solution.

It's the agriculture sector not people with hoses.