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Posted: 16 Aug 2019

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 Dinesh
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Consider California, the Golden State, long the idyllic picture of the human future. It endured a horrific five-year drought at the start of this decade, the deepest in thousands of years -- so deep0 that the state was tapping into groundwater that was twenty thousand years old, rain that fell during the last Ice Age, so deep that the state’s Sierra Navada range rose an inch just because sixty three trillion gallons of water had evaporated; so deep that it killed 102 million trillion trees, a blight “unprecedented in our modern history,” in the words of ‘Los Angeles Times. (Sugar pines shouold live five hundred years, but “everywhere you walk, through certain parts of the forest, half these big guys are dead,” said one forester.) the drought ended in the winter of 2017, when the rains finally came, an endless atmospheric river that poured off the hot Pacific into the high mountains. Everyone breathed a sigh. California’s authorities said, of course, that they understood the reprieve was only temporary, bnut they could be forgiven for relaxing a little as the hills turned lush and green. (Anyway, they were having enough trouble with the floods that the record rainfall produced the deluge caused almost a billion dollars in damage, for instance, to the nation’s highest dam.” ~ Page 31
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