Comments on: Environmental roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/07/environmental-roundup-12/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 16 Jul 2014 01:02:31 +0000 hourly 1 By: Boblipton https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/07/environmental-roundup-12/comment-page-1/#comment-296958 Wed, 16 Jul 2014 01:02:31 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=46884#comment-296958 If Academics like the idea of climate reparations, what reparations do they plan to offer for all that hot air they produce?

Bob

]]> By: jdgalt https://www.overlawyered.com/2014/07/environmental-roundup-12/comment-page-1/#comment-296676 Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:47:19 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=46884#comment-296676 I had the impression that federal funds for water projects (such as California’s dams and aqueduct system) have always carried conditions such as “farmers will always get their water at sweetheart rates.” And since they’re paying around 1% of the residential price, it stands to reason that the market-clearing price would be below the present residential price.

Such a rate change would certainly be beneficial, not least because it would move some agriculture from California to the plains or midwest states, where water is more plentiful. But California’s elite doesn’t want that to happen, and doesn’t want to build additional dams to supply the current population either.

The people need to demand they allow one change or the other. Until then, every year will be a so-called drought year in California.

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