It has been dry in CA. Several years of below average rainfall have been topped off this winter by record heat and the lowest Sierra snow pack on record. Faced with dwindling supplies, the Governor has ordered mandatory water use reductions for the first time in the state's history.
It might be tempting to see CA's plight as simply a cautionary tale about people living in an inherently arid climate. But CA (as it has so often been) is a harbinger of a new reality that all or us will likely have to adjust too. We increasingly live in a world where resources are limited, or where we will need to self-impose limits on how we use the planet if we want to sustain the earth's ecosystems for us and future generations.
Check out this interesting story from the New York Times about the new reality in CA:
http://nyti.ms/1DKkfab
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