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Unintended Consequences of Open Borders
Personally, I have been in favor of legalizing pot, even though I don’t use it. But now I am having second thoughts. Apparently, in California, there has been a lot of unintended consequences. The state is literally running out of water and not because of “climate change”; it is because they are using too much of it. What is interesting is that in order to “save water,” the California Ruling Class has sacrificed their agricultural sector that has been nurtured for over 100 years. But population growth and illegal pot farming is filling in the void. How nice.
This is just one of the harmful consequences of our open borders policies. What is sad is that I consider myself an environmentalist. So can someone tell me: where are the lovers of our land hiding, while all of our wild places are being destroyed? Is it because it does not follow their Hollywood scripts? Here are some interesting paragraphs from a Frontpagemag.com article:
Every few months brings another massive bust. A 40-acre illegal pot farm in an obscure part of Death Valley, the “most elaborate illegal marijuana” setup in Mendota with 50,000 pot plants that was so big that police could smell it from 1,100 feet in the air, “vast groves” worth $169 million in the eastern Sierras, and $285 million in the old Shasta region of the gold rush.
Mexican cartels now control much of the wilderness that California’s militant environmentalists had insisted on protecting from development. But while developers might fear the Sierra Club and its government allies, the cartels and the immigrant growers under their control don’t.
While California’s LEGAL agriculture industries are dying, its illegal pot industries are prospering. If you want to grow avocados, good luck getting the water. Instead, Californians are buying Mexican avocados, from which the cartels take their cut, while the water goes to illegal operations that aren’t worried about permits or environmentalist pressure groups in Sacramento.
California’s rice production will fall by 20% and its avocado production fell by nearly half in 2019 from 338 million pounds to 175 million pounds, while its illegal pot production vastly increased.”
I think it is so sad what is happening in the rural parts of California. I have heard Victor David Hanson discuss this topic. Can anyone from California comment? What have you seen?
Published in Environment
Which they can’t have, because the water was used to grow pot instead of avocados. Tough luck, stoners!
That’s been my point all along! :)
Oh what the heck, potatoes require water for growing too, so they can’t have any chips either!
I read that the majority of water used in agriculture in California by a couple of orders of magnitude is used in growing almonds. It has been proposed that almond growers or some portion of them switch to another crop because that would save a huge amount of water and just about solve the water supply problem. I don’t know if this is true, but it’s a different take on the situation from what I’ve read elsewhere.
Cloward-Piven come to mind.
Almonds or pot? This is getting confusing.
VDH votes for almonds.
I don’t pay much attention to the water situation in California, but haven’t there been plans for building reservoirs going back to the 1970’s that still haven’t been built? Are they still waiting for environmental impact statements to be finalized?
You can’t block the water for the California smelt.
Once reservoirs are filled, water flows in and through and out like before.
And they might even get electricity out of the deal.
Well, of course, California couldn’t allow THAT! Especially not with all those electric cars they want!