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On the Public Record: Fish, farms, feedback loops.

Posted by: Maven on February 9, 2010 at 8:52 am

From the On the Public Record blog:

“With the House Congressional hearings and Judge Wanger’s decision to allow pumping for a couple weeks right now (on the grounds that the pumps are allowed to kill about 23,000 juvenile salmon and so far have only killed about 1,200, so, you know, might as well pump a little), there’s been a whole lot of the now-familiar talking points. Regulatory drought will be the end of California farmers! Fish and ecosystems are collapsing!

I’m also seeing the new “Communist carrots!”, which I greatly enjoy. I can only assume these are Maoist carrots, partly because they’re from China, but mostly because of course carrots would favor agrarian socialism. Their role in the Cultural Revolution has never been fully explored.

I want to talk about the way “farmers on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley are hurting!” has become “farmers are hurting!”. This is interesting because 1. it is entirely unsupported, and 2. that gets the mechanism backwards, and 3. leads to interesting politics. … “

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February 9, 2010 · Filed Under Agriculture, Water Agency News

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