@@adamsmith-bg5wq yea that was weird. Obviously he’s talking to non-Americans but it’s a funny script line for one of the most well known state flags. The fact he said Californians aren’t super aware of the drought is bizarre. Guess he just didn’t think to double check the filler he wrote when he was proofreading.
He’s also using km’s not miles when talking about the roads. He’s obviously not a local and thinks we don’t know what’s happening in our own state. I’ve noticed a other lies.
@@eddiemix8007 KM over Miles is nbd man. He's speaking to an international audience, regardless of whether it's about America. He makes no attempt to pretend to be American either
I'm a fifth generation California and I can say it's most definitely politics. We had the opportunity to fix our water infrastructure years ago and we voted it down, but voted for a multi billion dollar slow train going nowhere. We have only grown in population over the years and refuse to fix and expand our critical infrastructure.
This is cuz (1) Prop 13 badly squeezed the tax base such that newer property owners pay so much more taxes than long-timers; (2) new-comers are unwilling to pay for the repairs needed by the infrastructure they are so happy to enjoy. It has also created scenarios leading to decline in school funding.
"Most Californians may not be aware of" Nah man, we all know. It's CONSTANTLY on the news, on social media, talks of water waste fees, and neighbors reporting other neighbors for wasting water is pretty common when the droughts get bad.
@@RK-cj4oc well, when your drinking water becomes scarce, it's idiotic if someone pouring it over their grass, isn't it? And if it's becoming a state emergency and people still do that, you have to forbid it
i'm from a random country in asia and dreamt of going to america as a kid. I went to california and realized that 1) real estate is massively way more expensive to insanity. 2) there's so much homeless people and didn't feel safe 3) everywhere i have to own a car and drive. whereas back home i could just walk and take public transport - lots of traffic and cost to own and operate a car. 4) people weren't genuine. back home people will just be straight up with you. 5) taxes are so high. back home it's way less - and they find ways to take money away. everything is taxed. and they find creative ways to take your money away. 6) healthcare - extremely expensive. 7) food - sure you could get anything, but anything healthy is very expensive. and anything affordable is mostly very fattening. 8) i'm scared of the earthquake i decided to move back and i'm very happy i don't live in california anymore.
There are genuine people in America just not the West Coast, people in the Midwest and middle America are much more real and nicer than the coastal areas.
It's really shocking to hear you say that because as someone that's lived in California my whole life, I've grown so used to all those things you listed )-: hadn't realized that until now how most of these things are not okay...
Your impression of the US would be vastly different if you went to a different state. California is only a good state to live in if your are wealthy- and even many wealthy people leave the state. Even though the state is supposed to be liberal- the gap between the rich and the poor keeps getting greater and greater. Pretty soon you just have rich enclaves it gated communities with private security guards surrounded by homeless people, poor people and an ever shrinking middle class.
Los Angeles was once a desert. They have diverted all rainfall from surrounding areas to funnel down to them. Any natural ponds and areas that would have originally held this water (there were even some in the deserts) are nolonger. So this is making the surrounding areas more and more arid. So, they have helped create this problem.
it's ironic, really; California claims to be the "champions of the eco-green" movement, yet they're spiraling so far left that they can't even realize they're destroying themselves in a vain attempt to control the climate. they waste more time, money, and energy trying to construct supposedly "green" materials and regulate everything they can think of to reduce emissions that it actually would have been better for them not to even bother. California (particularly the large cities) is a "bowl-shape," meaning air doesn't get regularly filtered out and they will stay in non-attainment forever, no matter how much pollution their government claims to control. they push for homosexuality, cross-dressing, political correctness down to the pronouns, legal/lawsuit/walking-on-eggshells culture as not to "offend" anyone, and toleration of crime as the fault of law-abiding society rather than the perpetrator. but most importantly, there's also just way too many people living over there, without doing anything productive; I'd say up to *50%* even of the state's population consists of drugged-up homeless people that want everything in life for free, and don't want to perform any shred of physical/mental labor to better themselves or learn skills to be self-sufficient.. they also want to have 5-12 kids each, and think the government should economically support all of them as well from the time they're born till the time they pass away. it's disgusting. they live in a woke, snowflake "bubble" and have 0 grasp of what the rest of the world is like.
As someone who moved into California for several years then moved away, I agree. The democratic supermajority does nothing but push single agenda bills into law that makes life more expensive and does very little to actually address the problems California is facing. A great example is the state's water supply issues. Water is valuable in California, with people being taxed based on how much they use and even being fined for excessive water usage, yet 80% of the state's water is used in agriculture. Quick note for context, most high valued crops like soy beans and various nuts are tropical plants, requiring multiple inches of water every week. California sees an average rain fall of 23 inches, which is lying because the southern half only gets 16 and the valley gets 20, so there is a geographical disparity. And because agriculture is such a huge income earner to the state, they're willing to make their citizens become dehydrated so that they can keep sending out tropical crops in a heavily arid climate. Now a proper solution would be to find a way to make that great big puddle of salt water we call an ocean usable for crops so people can have more water. More water access, less issues. But desalination plants have not had the backing of the local government until recently. Of which there are 12 privately owned and financed desalination plants. Apparently there are calls for more, but the infrastructure in California is so bad that having more would put too much burden on the power grid. You don't get that bad by being good at managing your state.
@@vallahdsacretor4839 so two big problems with what you said that I think any life long Californian would know. 1 we have the California aqueduct which transports Northern California water into the Central Valley and southern Californian up until 2019 it would be ask much as 80 percent of Northern California’s water would leave the region however this has reduced due to supply constraints and public discontent( which as a norcal resident people have been upset about the aqueduct program for decades). 2. Desalinization just doesn’t work, at least not yet. It does something and the state for a while subsidized projects but the problem is desalinization requires a large amount of time and a massive amount of energy. It’s quite literally better for the environment and the states check book to try to import water than to rely on desalinization. Hopefully soon the tech gets better and desalinization will work better but right now when we already have issues with our power grid being spread too thin building more power guzzling facilities that at least right now don’t really help makes zero sense
As someone who lived his whole life in California and moved away, you're spot on. Knowing that a large chunk of the state is naturally arid, it amazes me how not much is made of preservation or conservation.
@@eragonruler Fair points, but that doesn't really dispute the core of my argument, which was the state wide mismanagement of California. Even desalination plants are, by and large, a plaster level solution at best. In order for California to actually recover, it would need to reverse a lot of decisions, put hard bans on the types of plants that it can grow, and dedicate a larger amount of money into fixing and reinforcing infrastructure. All things that the leadership has shown it's unwilling to do. Instead, they're going further into left leaning ideas and pushing out everyone who has no interest in dealing with their ever increasing cost of living.
@@vallahdsacretor4839 I agree with that. The average citizen has been made to suffer while agribusiness booms and golf course guzzle water. The business over citizen attitude of the California government needs to stop in regards to water consumption. Also yeah we need to invest in better water capture methods not just hope we have a good rain to fix the problem.
Nah fr, everyone here knows about the drought 🤦♂. I know he said maybe but homie also said "most californians" prior to that and it just don't sit right. Feels like it makes us look insensitive to what's happening when we're more proactive than most states in regards to the environment x.x
@@nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1944 Truth!!! I've followed some of what's been going on with Utah's water situation (worse drought than us), and those in the know are having a devil of a time getting any meaningful change to excessive water use. Like people are clueless as to why they shouldn't farm in a desert.🤦
@@nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1944 y'all are insensitive to whats happening. Wdym??? If you all woke up and voted for people that care instead of democrats maybe they'd fix the problems.
Trying to convince people that these events are not the result of poor management, poor city design, and overall poor policy is intentional misinformation.
@@eattheleftist7154 to be honest nobody's first choice is to live in the conservative states. People end up settling in the conservative states due to cheap cost of living. If all things were equal cost wise then people wouldn't even bother to move to conservative states. I don't blame any of the immigrants for picking California as one of their desired locations since it is one of the least backwards states in the US.
@@doctorx1924 “one of the least backwards states” that’s a funny joke. When you show me a Cali city street not filled with aids needles, feces, homeless encampments, and violence I’ll stop laughing. People go to California because it is backwards. You’re rewarded for being homeless, illegal immigrants won’t be deported, and if you have the right politics you can practically do anything without being punished.
Ive lived in California my entire 27 years of life. Its on a downward trend and fast. Its been so sad to see this once beautiful state turn into what it is now. Politics are a huge issue here. Many of the people in the major cities are so disconnected from reality and it shows. Despite all of our problems we keep re-electing people like Newsom and his cronies. The problems continue to worsen, the people keep crying that they want change, but they never do anything to make it happen. Those who are sane and fortunate enough to afford to move are the ones leaving the state. Sad to say but I hope to be joining them soon.
Were so happy to be in the FREE state of Tennessee. Most of the people we still know there, can't wait to leave. 30% of the people are GREAT, which in ca, means about 12 MILLION.
the video "its not politics" everyone in the comments "its literally because of politics" politics is the game which governs the management style and actions over a given section of the population and land. the actions which lead to the survival or destruction of that section of the populace are OBVIOUSLY to do with the reason why it would be dying. you cannot separate the actual functioning state of a community with its decisions. its ludicrous to pretend the action or inaction of california doesnt have anything to do with its death. "i burned my hand on the stove, but its not because i put my hand there."
The climate and geography certainly is a major factor, but the quality of life depends heavily on how politicians respond to such factors, so I'd say it's hard to say that it is or isn't because of politics. Large areas of California are very high up, for example, so imagine how little impact erosion would have if efforts were made to provide affordable housing and public transport in such areas. Instead all the focus still seems to be on selling expensive waterfront properties to the same billionaires who pay lobbyists to have all the political focus on them.
Also since there’s so many people living there, the amount of people has caused many environmental issues. I mean central California used to have a large freshwater lake in it that was gradually destroyed by humans/farms. The lake that dried up was lake Tulare and it was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi.
From what I've read, Lake Tulare and the associated lakes and wetlands we're drained quite rapidly due to intense agricultural activity. In fact, if I remember right, it was one mega farmer who did the bulk of the damage, however, I can't recall his name. I would also support restoring that region, as I support preserving the River Delta area where I live. ✌️😎💜🌎
I just moved from California. The drought in the valley was one of the major reasons we decided to leave. It was so awful having bone dry 110 degree summers, fires for half the year, and dust storms. It was depressingly brown for all but three months of the year. It was awful how the land was managed there. Loads of water wasting. It's upsetting to see.
A lot of people here tend to take water for granted and have lots of lush green lawns for absolutely no reason. It is insanely hot during the summer. People know we have a drought and continue to throw water at their grass
@@jakoos Its not so much of how californians vote its about how the state propositions are written to be vague and/or misleading. This is rife in CA because there is ALOT of money to be made(5th largest economy in the world) and therefor incentives to bend the law to increase those profits.
I guess that's what happens to a state or country when it's way too populated? Too much infrastructure, deforestation, more factories, corporations, and architecture all this ruin natural environment and natural qualities.
If you were going to talk about California wildfires, you must address the mismanagement of the forest. As a person who lives in Sierra Nevada so they’re entire life, I know that the mismanagement and fire suppression in the forest is the main cause of the catastrophic wildfires. Anyone who fails to address the suppression of fire and mismanagement of the forests, really has zero understanding of where the wildfires come from
why would he do that.. that would expose a fundamental flaw in one sides thinking about land and resources and how they are preserved and managed. It would maybe make people ask? what happened in the 70's through the 90's that brought america's development to a stand still? why are all the big projects just too expensive here? and are we really managing our forest?
Great opportunity for the government to invest in more forestry management jobs, and small businesses looking to work on a large public project like a green new deal style job program. The Sierra club and other activist organizations call for preserving these parks & trails but people need to get paid up front for time and materials to go haul lumber and burn it safely, its not enough to just sell the shit for $25 and expect campers 4x4 people to do it on charity. At least FDR sent the hobos out on trains to collect the fire wood, bottles, & cans back in the 30's.
Elaborate, how is forest management going to stop or lessen the fires in California? What is forest management (according to you), how does it stop fires, and does it not matter that California is so arid that even the grass can catch with a small spark?
@@leos8019 "forest management" ie controlled burns and brush clearing to lessen the impact of catastrophic fires, fire watch towers, fire roads, fire ring construction at campsites to deter nomad fires public service announcements created to spread awareness (smokey the bear) increased funding in every level would help curb the current costs. Elementary stuff really...
As a Californian I can honestly say, many are aware of the devastating drought, but almost everyone doesn’t understand the severity of this drought bc they’re blind by the water that comes from the faucets, seems like there isn’t a drought going on and that’s what’s causing the ignorance!
I appreciate this video (despite how many people have commented that we are aware, I can tell you that I bet most people don’t even care). I have lived in Cali all my life and only just started realizing how dead most regions are now, only because I’m finally traveling around my state and it was sad to see nothing but dried out barren fields in places I expected to see gorgeous green. :( it really is scary…
As a lifelong Californian, I would argue that politics has everything to do with our geography, as in land use and allocation of natural resources. The histories of water and real estate in Cali are full of politically powerful people, from Mulholland to Pelosi. Thats what makes it all far too complicated to cover in brief video. I think you could do better, given the time. As far as the volatile and dynamic nature of our geography goes, thats what makes Cali so beautifully varied! Not many places you can go surfing in the morning, snow boarding in the afternoon, and be home for dinner that evening.
@@darkithnamgedrf9495 there's still plenty of snow for skiing on the mountains around where the ski resorts are. Also, that trip would certainly involve a considerable amount of driving, but it sure is possible.
@@darkithnamgedrf9495 I believe the mountains in SoCal broke a couple records this year for the amount of snow received (Big Bear comes to mind). I’m chilling here in San Diego, where conditions have hovered between “abnormally dry” and “minor drought /D-1” since like 2018. In fact, aside from relatively isolated homeless camps; we’ve been spared the onslaught of what seems t be plaguing every other Californian city. I’ve lived here since 2005, and never, aside from the constant reminders on the news about apocalyptic droughts, have I ever been directly or even indirectly affected. Waiting on some Mad Max style dusty environs, but I think that ain’t happening until like 2300 at this rate.
Not really, the problem is climate change and companies that want to make more profit by building in the seaside and misusing water. Most politics have to do with this is climate change and company regulations.
"We expect 10 feet of sea level rise by 2100" In 70 years y'all got 4 inches of sea level rise, and 2 inches of subsidence. In the remaining 80 years I'd expect a change of 7 inches. If you choose to live on a cliff overlooking the ocean, that's your choice. That's the politics of climate change. "Disaster is coming, and it's all your fault for using fossil fuel!" sea level has been going up at 1.5 mm per year. land rise or fall accounts for the rest.
@@geraldfrost4710 it's because it's getting exponentially worse. It's not linear. Things are getting worse and those worse things are making things even worse. Problems compound and snowball. We are still very much in the "early stages" of climate change.
"It's not politics" **Proceeds to describe problems caused by climate change, unregulated water and land usage, bad forestry practices and urban planning* What do you think politics are?
@@whatwhat3432523 imagine if almond farmers had to pay fair price for water, if folks could compete with pg and e for utility maintenance, if tesla could actually expand its facilities without years of red tape. Less agrarian water waste, less forest fires, more and cheaper EVs. Sounds like the end to me.
I'm born and raised in San Francisco's Bay Area. We are so well aware of the drought going on but we can't get enough people to care. Especially major companies and more wealthy areas. If you ever want to move to California, don't. It is unbelievably heartbreaking watching your home deteriorate at such a rate. The amount of people native to California that are desperately trying to flee while they can, while people from other places are flooding in is overwhelming
@@erinmcdonald7781 haha I’m from Virginia Beach right nearby and go to school at LSU majoring in wetland science. I definitely understand where you’re coming from.
glad to see in the comments that plenty of yall know that actually yes, politics and the bad policies and laws of corrupt politicians over the course of many decades has a lot to do with it and IS the cause of much of it.
Please point out the exact policies and laws you are referring to, I'd love to hear it. Not a fan of most politicians in existence, but people like you claiming to understand environmental science when it is clearly just a ruse to support your team is just a sad way to live.
@Kyle, that’s pretty easy. CA infamously refuses to do proper forest management or controlled burnings, in the name of saving trees. They also resist clean nuclear power and dams (nuclear power is by far the best and only ecologically sound option that works for the future.) Other states (who don’t have our wildfire problems) and even Trump have called us out on it. And they’re right.
Newsoms wineries aren't looking brown. You know...the wineries that magically stayed open during that pandemic.... They don't care about us. It's called corruption.
">Climate change exists, therefore California's Geography sucks." ">California is in the ring of fire, therefore it sucks, regardless of the fact that that's where the majority of the Earth's population lives as well." Edit: LOL DUDE CHANGED THE TITLE NICE ONE BRO This video makes it sound like everyone is about to die, California has arguably the most unique Geography of any U.S State. It has both the lowest point in the contiguous U.S below sea level, and the highest point, the former also being the location of hottest recorded natural temp. on Earth. It's a gross oversimplification to say that rising sea levels will in essence cripple the state. By this logic, if California's geography sucks because of water, than Louisiana and Florida's Geography REALLY sucks as the majority of their coasts will be completely underwater. Just look at New Orleans, nobody will disagree with you there.
The issue with non alarmist content is that people are so overstimulated that you can not even get their attention with normal titles aso. You may get somewhat attention but never all you really need.
California will always be the Golden state. The nature and possibilities are unmatched by any other us state. We have flaws but there's way more good than bad here.
The sea has always been advancing in California. When I was a child in the 1960s in the Pacific Palisades, we would walk to the end of the main street that ended abruptly at the cliffs and see things like plumbing coming out of the hillside going nowhere. I later understood that houses fell into the sea there. Also, another contributing factor to wildfires is the governments opposition to logging and mismanagement of the subsequent "saved" forests, which has led to lots of fuels for the fires. Where are the trees the government has saved? You are breathing them...
A lot of it really comes down to partisan divides and not doing what makes sense, but doing what follows ideology. Immigration makes economic sense but Republicans try to restrict it while taxing everyone at 65 percent makes no sense but it still happens.
@@dbamoghh8287 It doesn't matter. Both sides since 9/11 and arguably since the 80's have proven to be corrupt, they just have different ways of going about it and pandering to the public. It's gonna take a long while still before most Americans realize and stop picking sides that don't serve them or care about them.
Being from Cali the biggest issue of these is the large population living mostly in the arid part of the state from the 1900s onward taking the water from the areas with wet climates and not really replacing that water. Same problem with the water table in mid western states were big farms have to produce lots of food and thus start unregulated water tapping of the massive water table under the Mississippi water delta.
I honestly have no idea why so many Californians want to live in the desert anyway. Okay, there's fewer bugs, but deserts destroy everything in their path.
@@okamijubei Not necessarily. California dumps billions of gallons of processed waste water into the ocean instead of recycling the waste water which would be smarter in a dry arid place. I know people aren't comfortable with that, but you don't have to drink it if they do it right. My dad worked for LA county and was amazed by how much water is literally thrown away instead of managed.
Perhaps we should strictly control where people live and make them get permission to move from the holy climate management authorities? Let's save the planet with totalitarianism!
Yeah, that vicious Mediterannean climate is really after us. Wildfires and droughts are a concern, volcanic threat isn't something of concern and lastly, I could give a shit about some wealthy people losing their vacation homes to erosion.
This is the entire west coast...Western Washington State is counting down to a projected 9.0 Earthquake and Tsunami courtesy of the Juan de Fuca fault.
Bless your heart for letting me know that "most Californians" arent even aware there's a drought. I did not know that. Did you know that most youtube creators arent even aware of what "most people" know?
I remember visiting relatives in CA, going to the beach, doing all sorts of things on the coast. Now, the beach is just gone, along with several buildings that were constructed for the beach. We knew one of the families who owned one of those beachside homes, and they told us everyone in the neighborhood raised money to build a seawall to stop the water from crumbling their homes. Crazy stuff.
Some would love to go be a tourist in California. But getting a Visa to the US is not easy for everyone. So some people are not going to cry the Pacific Ocean will extend to Nevada.
Shut up already. you literally just made that up. Which town was this? And no beach is “gone” in California. I remember going to a beach and Texas and it was pitch black water with brown piss stained sand with homes on stilts and mosquitos buzzing around like pests. That towns beach is now completely gone
we are dying, especially in the Northern California- if you are renting, or own a own a home- our property tax has sky rocketed, home owners association payment is not even tax deductible...if you are earning 250K in San Francisco, you are considered a median class..
"wWhy California is Dying" The rest of the country: "How do we make it die faster and keep the idiots from leaving at the same time? We don't want them."
**A non-Californian badly explains Californias problems. Yes, we’re aware of most of this. Especially the droughts you mentioned most of us may not be aware of. We are, we simply can’t do much and it has a lot to do with politics. The problems in our cities and the environmental problems have a lot to do with politics. I know it’s hype to shit on California mostly because a lot of the other states do it (often for fair reasons) but you’re kind of talking about problems from a very removed perspective and at times saying we have perspectives that we simply do not have. We can’t stop global warming from making the sea levels rise alone, it’s very difficult to get our greedy overlords to invest in environmentally friendly water infrastructure, we’ve been actually coming out of the drought in some places for a few years now, people in California often have so many problems within the cities alone that it’s difficult to see all the issues our farms face and even if we do see those issues… they have different local governments that most city people can’t vote towards and if they somehow do vote for something during state elections they may actually make the problem worse by being misinformed or tricked into voting towards a worse bill that has a pretty name or slogan behind it. They’re not farmers or scientists and it’s difficult to know for sure which bill is actually pro-environment but on other hand the farmers may be more conservative and want quick solutions to their problems in order to feed their families. Completely disregarding any environmental effects hence the constant negative feedback loop. It’s good that you’re trying to bring some awareness but you’re sort of generalizing our attitudes towards these problems and/or making it seem like it’s not something political that is quite clearly very political and can only be resolved with certain ballot measures.
Cool vid, I’m a CA native and Pacifica was like my second home. People built homes on the cliffs for the beautiful view and would often assume it would be gone within less than 100 years. It’s sort of a morbid ongoing joke. But thankfully many of the schools in the area are very environmentally conscious and teach a lot about the ocean. Also fun fact Pacifica is home to the greatest taco bell in the world and I think it’s the most profitable Taco Bell in CA because it’s right on the beach.
Love the beach tacobell! I was at that beach as a kid and somehow didnt notice it when I walked in, I turned around at one point and there was a TACOBELL! I freaked out hahaha
Yes, I get the land is beautiful, and it seems untouched over there and hardly any tampering with nature... directly. Indirectly... I am not sure with that. As humans I guess we are the demons of this earth.
I would say politics is the #1 reason California is dying. Highest taxes, cost of living, crime, homelessness, worst regulations and cost to start a business…… I can go on. Look who is running this state!
Lol as a Californian the only concern I have that you brought up is the drought, and I'm aware that it could be a major problem in the coming years. A larger concern for me is the cost of living. Rent is F@cking ridiculous, and so is the cost to buy a house, and so is the cost to buy an empty lot. Looking forward fleeing this state. Gonna miss the hunting and fishing though.
@@skypieper yup I’m in northern British Columbia and it’s beautiful and perfect for everything you say except cold. About 4 months of the year you can expect -10 to -30 Celsius but in the summers it’s +30 Celsius and beautiful. If you are in the Vancouver area in southern B.C. They don’t often get below freezing all year round
$$$$ $$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$ Economics 101: Supply vs. Demand. Throughout the 60s and 70s, CA was viewed, rightly or not, as among the most innovative and progressive places in the world. But they eventually bought into the overconsumption and deregulation methods to feed capitalism. Among other things that meant politicians and business groups promoting overimmigration policies (of ALL ethnicities, economic classes, ages and skill levels), so that over the last 30 years immigration alone has added at least 45 million here-plus at least 11 million illegals. With all of these numbers-plus domestic increases-corporations continued making super profits from soaring consumption and wages, stagnating well below inflation rates, from flooded labor markets. In fact, corporations have done so well that they can make deals with overseas tax havens to do low cost manufacturing and job outsourcing. Americans have long been aware of over immigration but said and did nothing for fear of being labeled xenophobes or nimbys-baseless claims since countless immigrants for years are skilled professionals-but who exploit the infrastructure and public services which Americans have been taxed to support all of their working lives. Such immigrants should be reforming their homeland governments and diversifying their economies, instead of causing inflation, low wages and driving up the cost and down the quality and quantity of every basic human need in the US. If those in CA, NY and much of the rest of the nation would have acted with wisdom and fairness upon these facts-by revolting against the realities of NAFTA and the New World Order-they could have created a very different future for themselves.
I don't think it's correct to say a place as geographically diverse as California has the worst geography. It is what it is and people will do with it as they will. It can be argued the geography of the Netherlands is not great either, but people find ways around that. California is very geographically active, so it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the coastline is falling into the sea. People who want to live close to the ocean continue to flock there and property developers continue to endulge them. Earthquakes are just something that Californians non-chalantly acknowledge to exist, but not really feel bothered by it. Modern building codes make it so buildings will not topple (unless you are Millenium Tower) and many older buildings have undergone seismic retrofit. The only unsustainable thing is the states water problem. California is exiting a historically wet period in its history and there may be too much people and industry build up to br sustained. Agriculture might not have the most efficient water usage, but the irony is many farmers think the drought is a big conspiracy theory made up by state politicians to restrict their farm output. (You had to have driven past the billboards the farmers out up during the drought to believe it.)
They’re stuck in the “everybody else’s fault” syndrome; they don’t accept the idea that many farmers might over-use water resources. Add onto that, the fracking industry (oil companies) also sucks a huge amount of groundwater and replaces it with a noxious cocktail of chemicals they refuse to identify. These poisonous by-products further contaminate the remaining groundwater, making it unusable for agriculture, unless you’re willing to eat food similar to what is produced in China. No lie.
I grew up in Nevada and spent a lot of time in California, and am currently a student in geography and ecology. I think the most frustrating thing about all of this is the fact that there are more efficient farming techniques and technologies already available that will never be adopted because conservatives aren't capable of doing anything other than throwing infantile temper tantrums. On the topic of the Neherlands, they developed verticle indoor farms that use a fraction of the water our bronze-age style farms do, while also requiring far less pesticides and having a larger output of food. I've studied this, and while initially expensive the long term benefits would be massive due to the mentioned water efficiency while also requiring less land. But how to you get uneducated conservatives to accept this? They can't even figure out vaccines! If we can't modernize our currently unsustainable agriculture methods, our societies will collapse
@@alexheschong2717 Yeah, I've talked to plenty of farmers in both Nevada and California though that claim it's a conspiracy to steal their water. They don't believe there's a drought and won't do anything about it. The worst are in Utah where the entire state believes the drought isn't real. Utah currently uses more water per capita than any other state in the union.
A little alarmist. Every single native californian knows about the droughts, we've been having them for a while now, it is gonna be a big problem though. Earthquakes don't bother us. Wildfires suck but we've gotten better at fighting them. I fail to see how collecting snow runoff is "unusual," and you didn't really explain how it is.
It's at most a secondary thought for most dams Outside of california, there are ~250 dams meant for runoff while the rest are mostly meant to store normal rain. There are more dams meant to ensure locks can operate correctly (~550) than snow runoff dams
Having lived in the San Diego metro for 25 years, it always amazed me that the city has powerful pumps to drain floodwater, not into reservoirs for future use, but out to sea.
I grew up in CA and it was a wonderful life. 1/3 of fruits & veggies from Central Valley. Also FL is another large food producer. So much agriculture land is being sold to housing developers (and commercial developers for all the store to support people who live there) so, were also losing another major food growing area.
Counties issue building permits where there shouldn’t be permanent buildings. This isn’t unique to California. But California is severely guilty of it.
That varies from one situation to the next. "Environmental regulations" are conveniently overlooked, with the payment of huge bribes and kickbacks. (Republicans and Democrats don't really care about the planet; that's just a front for money-laundering.) However, when somebody actually wants to build something good and useful, some Liberal snob will play "NIMBY," and blatantly violate his right to build on his own property.
True, a similar problem is happening in the outer banks of north carlolina. Stronger hurricanes destroy coastal property every few years cause the outer bands are just sand bars that are like 20 feet above sea level. If you build a house right on the ocean I feel like there is some inherent risk whether it’s on a cliff in Pacifica or beach in the south east.
Firstly, most of this video is a little alarmist. A workshop I attended with independent seismology and climatology organizations explained that, although many of these topics will happen, the effects are dismal compared to the ability for California to adapt and redevelop. Also, you should make a video about the growing importance and populations of the San Joaquin Valley. Fresno, Stockton, Visalia, and Bakersfield - along with the Sacramento Valley - are swelling in development, political power, and population. They also are slightly more resilient to climate change than SF and LA are
They are not more resilient to climate change than San Francisco. Los Angeles I can see as they have more access to water from the rivers and mountains near them from snowmelt. But it doesn’t even get that much more than LA and LA when accounting for Lake Arrowhead and other areas, actually has the same or better water access. It has has more elevation than the central valley which despite drier climate, gets worst outcomes from local flooding. For San Francisco, it get over double the rain that Sacramento gets and way more than the San Joaquin alone. Iy also has all the possible river run off they get combined through the bay while having more protection from higher elevation. On top of that water, they have the wet Santa cruz mountain water which is the same water that also feeds the redwoods.
@@SS-yj2le Plus! Los Angeles is starting to get hit with La Niña which is good despite the little rain it offers; and the Carlsbad Desalination Plant in San Diego County is improving it’s energy efficiency and emitting less pollutants & brine waste. It’s has a long way to eliminate its energy and environmental penalty.
@@SS-yj2le Los Angeles relies on importing water from Northern California, they do not have more water naturally at all. Have you ever heard of the Los Angeles Aqueducts and the San Joaquin Valley route State Water Project. Next time you are driving over the Grapevine look west and you can see the massive pipelines that are taking water from Northern California.
You make a video about Colorado massive growth and how will it be able to be supported. I've noticed in just the 4 years of living in Colorado springs, there has been nothing but more and more neighborhoods being built and traffic getting crazy. But my biggest worry is where will we get the water to support all these people? Already barely rains here and reservoirs are already shrinking yearly. My 2nd time going to the Blue Mesa Reservoir(biggest lake in CO) you can clearly see how badly it shrunk.
@@jennyzubiri9312 : Forest fires are a natural part of the trees' lifecycle in California. Some species don't reproduce at all if they don't burn. The only people who have a problem with it are the humans who insist on trying to live in the forest.
Well, it is politic that California digs its own graves. Many years of rapid urban development has led to exhausted resources, environmental damages and over-population. Politicians in CA have veered the interest of Californians to supposedly "controversial" issues and away from real matters like drought, broken infrastructures, and joblessness.
Drought is a major concern. Poor infrastructure is a problem nationally and, having lived in a few different states, is certainly worse is many other places.
Volcanoes in California aren't going to be that devastating. Let's just ask the active ones: The small Salton Buttes lava domes aren't that threatening, easy evacuations; The group of maars that are the Ubehebe Craters are low threat as well, their entire formation was linked to 1 short-lived event; The line that goes from Mammoth Mountain to Mono Lake is in an isolated area, no real threats there again, unless Long Valley supervolcano does another big one; The Clear Lake volcanic field has been largely non-explosive despite the acidic lava present. Explosive activity was limited to maars. Populated areas around may be caught off guard. Lassen has been known to make large ones since its 1914-1917 eruption. Not too many people live nearby so easy evacuations. Watch for airlines; Shasta will easily be the most disruptive one because of its proximity with I-5, vulnerable to pyroclastic flows and lahars, the most dangerous in the state; Medicine Lake will not have the same effect in comparaison.
Politics have a lot to do with it, poor city/resource management, bad policies, bad forest management (forest fires) and trying to convince people that it’s not political at all is either blatant misinformation or incredibly ignorant
To me personally, California is a state where the cons of living there have started vastly outweighing the pros. These days, you couldn't pay me enough to move to California.
@@williammaywood4194 but not every other state as popular as California has been historically has started losing population, I think it ultimately comes down to politics, because it not only effects people's lives, with high cost of living. but also effects the environment. like wildfires and droughts.
You should talk to a Californian but over all video is accurate other than small caviet that most Californians are aware of the drought I remember learning about it in elementary school and sf is not considered central California
I’ve lived in California for nearly 50 years, there’s no better state. Sixth largest economy in the world, not in North America, not just in the lower 48, the f ing world! I’m 64 and I can’t retire because money just piles up at my front door, more opportunity than I have ever seen and where I live I have ten backcountry campsites within a half days walk from my house, we bike or backpack, drink from springs year round and get all the free firewood we can burn for heating our house. We live cheap, we live free in a place where people don’t trash the environment, what more can you ask for, oh yeah better forest management is a plus we have it where I live but generally the forest service can’t compete with global warming. So help out, stop the squeal, park that gas guzzler!
I think 1 issue can solve the other. The sea levels are rising, and wont stop anytime soon right? So what if we built a system to capture the rising sea water and funnel it to desalination plants. The cleansed water can be used to help manage the drought, and the excess brackish water can be put into reservoirs for natural evaporation since it can't go back into the ocean without harming the sea life. Do this along with proper forest management and Cali's ecological issues are solved. Also, sea water provides tritium and deuterium for nuclear fusion power, so there will already be a supply for when nuclear fusion comes around.
what makes you think that worst case scenario wont happen? i dont see china or india rdeucing their emissions anytime soon, in fact both are ramping them up, especially coal.
@@captainalex157 The scientists are exaggerating worst case scenarios. In the past, they've predicted a number of worst case scenarios for like 2020 and 2010 that didn't happen...
@@captainalex157 How much has the sea risen in the last 40 years, and what were the projections for sea rise 40 years ago? I've heard endless doomsday prophecies from scientists and politicians alike all my life, and to date, not only have zero of them proven accurate, but none of them were even remotely close to reality, nor have I seen any of the prophesiers admit that their predictions were wildly incorrect and their models based on faulty assumptions and data. Usually they just throw out a new prophecy and demand more funding for their pet projects.
There's a good reason why California doesn't maintain the forest. They have billions invested in Calfire in equipment and the largest employer in the state. If they maintained the forest, all that equipment and their employees would sit idle. Fires in California is big business for them. Maintenance of the forest would cost less and the state would go bankrupt. In Finland the forest capital of the world, they pay the homeless to clean the forest floor. Little to no fires. It is politics.
Wildfire in California almost exclusively started in "Protected" forest where there was no selective cutting allowed. California was so quick to ban selective cutting to " Protect the forests but then failed to spend money to manage them. Ergo the only managed forest we're those with selective cutting because part of the cutting permits required Loggers to cleanup those area as part of the Cutting Contracts! But Hey You won't see them put those fires out too quickly, Fighting forest fires has become a Billion Dollar industry ! P.S. Instead of letting all that Acreage burn they should have allowed selective cutting, then they would have had cleaned up forest and Wood wouldn't cost an Arm and a Leg! But what do I know!
I get that this video is targeting the cons about Californias geography so it’s most likely a negative video, but the person narrating this video makes it seem like it’s uninhabitable state and everyone in it is in danger….
It's really not for conservatives. Doubt many conservatives are hoping for climatic disasters in California based on geography, that wouldn't help anyone. If anything they'd rather blame poor governance for the drought. Also I see no reason this danish dude would be targeting conservatives.
That's not entirely true. LA took all the water out of the Owens River valley up 395. The water in the Central valley goes to all the farmers in the Central valley plus the cities in the Central valley that use it for drinking water and all the other stuff.
@@dougc190 Southern California takes water from Owen's Valley but it takes most of its water from the Delta. The California Aqueduct carries water from the Delta, about 30% of that water is used by Central California farms, mostly in Kern County, the other 70% goes to Pyramid Lake where it is distributed throughout Greater Los Angeles. Los Angeles also takes about a billion gallons a day from the Colorado River.
@@dougc190 Yeah the original comment was misleading saying that the Central Valley used to be a sea. The Central Valley used to be a sea like 700,000 years ago. Unless he was talking about the draining of Lake Tulare which was not Los Angeles fault at all.
Everything about California is so mismanaged that yes I do believe it is dying. Many people are leaving and not as many people are moving in. I have lived in California my whole life and I love the weather but It's just not worth it anymore. For the last year I have been looking for another state to move to and haven't quite made a decision yet… and no I don't have liberal views. I'm all for constitutional carry and freedom so if you'll have any suggestions let me know!
You've got to include the politics in that cesspool of a state, because environmental catastrophes as well as the leaders they vote in there go hand in hand.
God damn. Sea leves rising is something which is utterly scary: I mean, a LOT of populace worldwide lives close to the sea, not to mention most harbors being vitally important to trade.
If you use the tool he used even 10meter rise aint the end of the world, we can still use harbours infact they will be bigger. The issue around it is more of just the severe weather associated with the climate change being more storms ect.
@@ishmyboy of course we can just move but counires like bangladesh or indonesia are gonna have their capitals submerged with just 2m sea level rise. That means either slam an extra 2m concrete on the city or relocating it, both being a logistical nightmare. and really those countires cant afford that.
Waterways provide access, we'll continue to live by the water regardless of where it rises to. The bigger issue will be moving to the new uphill for coastal cities on flatlands where higher ground can be miles away, or if a small island not at all.
@@captainalex157 Indonesia is already moving it's capital and would have to so do with or without climate change. Poor planning and over expansion lead the city to drain down it's groundwater and because it's built in a swamp the city is now sinking. Climate change is real and it is major problem, but if your going to use examples you have to use ones that make sense.
It's all about politics with California. Poor political planning and/or poor political policies all equal poor lack in judgement and bad things happening. Erosion on the coast of California should have been expected it due to it's being something that was going to happen anyway it's just increased the rate with the current weather. Droughts again is poor political planning and policies.
Life-long Californian here... you forgot the biggest disaster we face... a disaster we continue to face every day and showing no signs of letting up... which as our grossly wasteful and incompetent state government. Many of our "problems" are "government mismanagement problems." In a State where water is so scarce, not only is our government NOT increasing supply, but is looking to ELIMINATE dams. This, in turn, causes a massive reliance on ground water drilling. California's forests have been mismanaged for decades as California's hippie "Don't kill anything ever" mentality has led to stockpiles of fuel turning what once were manageable blazes into all-consuming bonfires. Don't feel sorry for us. Many of us VOTED for this. So I must disagree with the title... it may 'seem' like its not politics. but it is.
Yes we are aware of the drought. Its not the first nor will it be the last- I wonder if this person has ever been to California. I have lived in areas of and experienced: wildfires, tornadoes, floods, typhoon, earthquake. Pretty much everywhere has some potential natural disaster. I don’t think that is why people are leaving the state. California boomed since WW2 and that boom is leveling off and opportunities are opening in cheaper states like Texas (which I once lived in). California is expensive but then places that people like to live in are. Where it is cheep to live is typically because most people do not want to live there! Our geographical locations certainly have some disadvantages. However when it is 70 degrees and sunny here in February how cold is it in Chicago, New York most of Texas? How do they like that? Yes we live with earthquakes but we also have some of the most beautiful and diverse landscape in the world because of that. On a weekend you can enjoy the central valley plain, or the ocean, or the desert, or the mountains, or a great city from just about anywhere in the state. Typically any of this is only a few hours drive at most. Cultural Diversity - Yes I regard this as a positive and California is one of the most diverse of our state. Just think of the food options: Indian food, German Food, Thai, middle eastern, and of course some of the best Mexican. you name it.
I lived there for 63 years, don't tell me how Ca. is. Let's see high CRIME and TAXES. Your losing more freedoms each year. In 2022 I have new FREEDOMS in the GREAT STATE of TENNESSEE.
Born an raised in sweet California. Have moved up by Canada to escape the drought and insane prices of everything. War planning entire life in Cali. forever... But now just miss it terribly. Home sick for the quiet sweet smell of the redwoods we lived near in Humboldt county. Worried about family left behind, and paradise drying up and burning. Uuuuggg
The drought wouldn’t be a problem if California didn’t divert most of the water to Southern California. This is a self-inflicted catastrophe. They messed with the water cycle.
Solution for eroding cliffs=Don't build on them without prior knowledge/move buildings away before further damage is caused. Solution for water=Beavers and the use of Continuous Contour Trenches. The Solution for Earthquakes/Volcanic eruption=Move away. Climate change needs more priority comparable to the chlorofluorocarbons ruining the ozone layer.
where the heck will California get BEAVERS? not to mention if the beavers reproduce at the speed of light, it's the Australian war against GOATs all over again. Humanity should stop introducing foreign species to other places :/
@@auliamate Beavers are already in California, And are in every other state for that matter, The two places they barely cover are Nevada, and most of southern California. They are a keystone species, which means they help support the growth of ecosystems.
@@auliamate they're native to the northern side of the state and very important there. Otters and salmon hang out up there too, a lot of people just forget how wet and forested the northern end is.
It's not just wildfires that are a massive problem with drying soil. We're also losing A LOT of our topsoil because it gets turned into dust during the prolonged droughts and then gets carried away by the wind. This topsoil is why we're even able to farm and plant vegetation. Not all earth is equal, and a lot of the earth that is left behind is not suitable for farming or adequate water retention. Also, without the dense topsoil, we're already starting to experience desertification in lots of areas. Dust bowls are a direct consequence of this. All in all, unless we're getting these droughts under control, we're going to have a pretty darn bad time in one or two decades.
when people hear california they hear "liberals" and label the entire state as such, completely forgetting (especially in norcal) that there is plenty of red areas out here. like seriously, look at how many votes trump got in california. does that really make it seem like everyone here is city folk left winger? so they make it out to be this hell state because then they can shit on the "liberals". im literally not even conservative myself but i still find it stuipid how many people label california some 100 tax rate hell hole. yes we have our problems, yes prices are high and regulation is constricting compared to "do whatever you want" states like texas and such, but its still an ok place to live we got mountains and parks and farmland to visit too its not just LA suburbs lol
California in the last 10-15 years has become a lot more overcrowded, and chaotic, you almost can’t go anywhere in this state nowadays without be bombarded by a horde of people, especially loud, rude, nasty, egotistical, self absorbed, and annoying kinds of people, and on top of that the wildfires, drugs, homelessness, and untreated mental illness have all become problems of epic proportions, because of our greedy, and corrupt people in power who do almost nothing to remedy these issues.
A bit alarmist. 7-10 ft sea level rise by 2100? Where did that come from green peace? The most pessimistic predictions are about 1/2 of that, assuming we do nothing. As far as California starving how ridiculous. We might have to cut back on farming a bit. Just the rice farmers use 10 times the water Los Angeles uses. Dairy and almonds also use a lot of water.
Plus ocean rise is a natural result of leaving the last ice age, it isn't really to do with current climate trends (not at a timescale below millennia, anyway). Even if the planet got significantly cooler over the next century, the sea level would continue to rise steadily for a very long time. The ocean is mostly still a huge mass of very cold water and has been slowly warming for the last 10,000 years, as the planet moved out of the ice age. Since warm water is slightly less dense than cold water, this causes a continuous rise in total volume every year due to thermal expansion. There's nothing anyone can do to stop it, it's just part of how the planet functions. It'll eventually lower again when this warm period ends and the next ice age starts. All people can do is adapt and move cities inland or reclaim land near the coasts, which is exactly what cities do anyway as any long-term time-lapse of a city will show. As for California specifically, it seems like California should just start building nuclear power plants and desalination plants near the main urban populations. Both could significantly reduce many of the problems the state faces, though reducing environmental and economic regulations that cause wildfires and drive companies away would be a good step as well. Beyond that, policies and tax cuts aimed at encouraging people to move out of the cities into smaller communities would eventually reduce the ridiculous real estate costs in the more densely populated areas, which are among the largest economic burdens residents deal with.
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@Ostia Hermes
Do you actually have citations to back your claim?
@Ostia Hermes
I said citations, not anecdotal observations.
“A drought that most Californian’s might not be aware of.” Trust me, we’re aware.
yea wtf on that? next he'll tell us the little known fact there's a bear on our flag
@@adamsmith-bg5wq yea that was weird. Obviously he’s talking to non-Americans but it’s a funny script line for one of the most well known state flags. The fact he said Californians aren’t super aware of the drought is bizarre.
Guess he just didn’t think to double check the filler he wrote when he was proofreading.
He’s also using km’s not miles when talking about the roads. He’s obviously not a local and thinks we don’t know what’s happening in our own state.
I’ve noticed a other lies.
@@eddiemix8007 KM over Miles is nbd man. He's speaking to an international audience, regardless of whether it's about America. He makes no attempt to pretend to be American either
Haha right?! We had draught warnings and water usage restrictions for the 30+ years I lived in California.
I'm a fifth generation California and I can say it's most definitely politics. We had the opportunity to fix our water infrastructure years ago and we voted it down, but voted for a multi billion dollar slow train going nowhere. We have only grown in population over the years and refuse to fix and expand our critical infrastructure.
This is cuz (1) Prop 13 badly squeezed the tax base such that newer property owners pay so much more taxes than long-timers; (2) new-comers are unwilling to pay for the repairs needed by the infrastructure they are so happy to enjoy. It has also created scenarios leading to decline in school funding.
Historian Victor Davis Hanson concurs.
Sadly, California is stuck with too many Watermelons.
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@Carrasco Yes, that's exactly why.
Never fix never upkeep only add
"Most Californians may not be aware of"
Nah man, we all know. It's CONSTANTLY on the news, on social media, talks of water waste fees, and neighbors reporting other neighbors for wasting water is pretty common when the droughts get bad.
Reporting them? What?
@@RK-cj4oc yeah lol if we’re in a drought and you’re watering your grass for an hour you’re getting called on
@@cryosteam3944 That is legit illegal?
@@RK-cj4oc well, when your drinking water becomes scarce, it's idiotic if someone pouring it over their grass, isn't it? And if it's becoming a state emergency and people still do that, you have to forbid it
@@edopronk1303 or just let people collect their own rainwater instead of fining and arresting them the rest of the year
i'm from a random country in asia and dreamt of going to america as a kid.
I went to california and realized that
1) real estate is massively way more expensive to insanity.
2) there's so much homeless people and didn't feel safe
3) everywhere i have to own a car and drive. whereas back home i could just walk and take public transport - lots of traffic and cost to own and operate a car.
4) people weren't genuine. back home people will just be straight up with you.
5) taxes are so high. back home it's way less - and they find ways to take money away. everything is taxed. and they find creative ways to take your money away.
6) healthcare - extremely expensive.
7) food - sure you could get anything, but anything healthy is very expensive. and anything affordable is mostly very fattening.
8) i'm scared of the earthquake
i decided to move back and i'm very happy i don't live in california anymore.
There are genuine people in America just not the West Coast, people in the Midwest and middle America are much more real and nicer than the coastal areas.
@@adamdavid93 piss off im from Boston, i am real
It's really shocking to hear you say that because as someone that's lived in California my whole life, I've grown so used to all those things you listed )-:
hadn't realized that until now how most of these things are not okay...
Your impression of the US would be vastly different if you went to a different state. California is only a good state to live in if your are wealthy- and even many wealthy people leave the state. Even though the state is supposed to be liberal- the gap between the rich and the poor keeps getting greater and greater. Pretty soon you just have rich enclaves it gated communities with private security guards surrounded by homeless people, poor people and an ever shrinking middle class.
@@adamdavid93 shut up
Los Angeles was once a desert. They have diverted all rainfall from surrounding areas to funnel down to them. Any natural ponds and areas that would have originally held this water (there were even some in the deserts) are nolonger. So this is making the surrounding areas more and more arid. So, they have helped create this problem.
Nevermind the reservoirs that hold more water the ponds you speak off.
it's ironic, really; California claims to be the "champions of the eco-green" movement, yet they're spiraling so far left that they can't even realize they're destroying themselves in a vain attempt to control the climate.
they waste more time, money, and energy trying to construct supposedly "green" materials and regulate everything they can think of to reduce emissions that it actually would have been better for them not to even bother. California (particularly the large cities) is a "bowl-shape," meaning air doesn't get regularly filtered out and they will stay in non-attainment forever, no matter how much pollution their government claims to control.
they push for homosexuality, cross-dressing, political correctness down to the pronouns, legal/lawsuit/walking-on-eggshells culture as not to "offend" anyone, and toleration of crime as the fault of law-abiding society rather than the perpetrator.
but most importantly, there's also just way too many people living over there, without doing anything productive; I'd say up to *50%* even of the state's population consists of drugged-up homeless people that want everything in life for free, and don't want to perform any shred of physical/mental labor to better themselves or learn skills to be self-sufficient.. they also want to have 5-12 kids each, and think the government should economically support all of them as well from the time they're born till the time they pass away.
it's disgusting. they live in a woke, snowflake "bubble" and have 0 grasp of what the rest of the world is like.
As someone who lived his whole life in California and moved away, believe me, it is absolutely the politics that is killing the once Golden State
As someone who moved into California for several years then moved away, I agree. The democratic supermajority does nothing but push single agenda bills into law that makes life more expensive and does very little to actually address the problems California is facing.
A great example is the state's water supply issues. Water is valuable in California, with people being taxed based on how much they use and even being fined for excessive water usage, yet 80% of the state's water is used in agriculture. Quick note for context, most high valued crops like soy beans and various nuts are tropical plants, requiring multiple inches of water every week. California sees an average rain fall of 23 inches, which is lying because the southern half only gets 16 and the valley gets 20, so there is a geographical disparity. And because agriculture is such a huge income earner to the state, they're willing to make their citizens become dehydrated so that they can keep sending out tropical crops in a heavily arid climate.
Now a proper solution would be to find a way to make that great big puddle of salt water we call an ocean usable for crops so people can have more water. More water access, less issues. But desalination plants have not had the backing of the local government until recently. Of which there are 12 privately owned and financed desalination plants. Apparently there are calls for more, but the infrastructure in California is so bad that having more would put too much burden on the power grid. You don't get that bad by being good at managing your state.
@@vallahdsacretor4839 so two big problems with what you said that I think any life long Californian would know. 1 we have the California aqueduct which transports Northern California water into the Central Valley and southern Californian up until 2019 it would be ask much as 80 percent of Northern California’s water would leave the region however this has reduced due to supply constraints and public discontent( which as a norcal resident people have been upset about the aqueduct program for decades). 2. Desalinization just doesn’t work, at least not yet. It does something and the state for a while subsidized projects but the problem is desalinization requires a large amount of time and a massive amount of energy. It’s quite literally better for the environment and the states check book to try to import water than to rely on desalinization. Hopefully soon the tech gets better and desalinization will work better but right now when we already have issues with our power grid being spread too thin building more power guzzling facilities that at least right now don’t really help makes zero sense
As someone who lived his whole life in California and moved away, you're spot on. Knowing that a large chunk of the state is naturally arid, it amazes me how not much is made of preservation or conservation.
@@eragonruler Fair points, but that doesn't really dispute the core of my argument, which was the state wide mismanagement of California. Even desalination plants are, by and large, a plaster level solution at best. In order for California to actually recover, it would need to reverse a lot of decisions, put hard bans on the types of plants that it can grow, and dedicate a larger amount of money into fixing and reinforcing infrastructure. All things that the leadership has shown it's unwilling to do. Instead, they're going further into left leaning ideas and pushing out everyone who has no interest in dealing with their ever increasing cost of living.
@@vallahdsacretor4839 I agree with that. The average citizen has been made to suffer while agribusiness booms and golf course guzzle water. The business over citizen attitude of the California government needs to stop in regards to water consumption. Also yeah we need to invest in better water capture methods not just hope we have a good rain to fix the problem.
Trust me, we're aware of our drought.
Nah fr, everyone here knows about the drought 🤦♂. I know he said maybe but homie also said "most californians" prior to that and it just don't sit right. Feels like it makes us look insensitive to what's happening when we're more proactive than most states in regards to the environment x.x
@@nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1944 Truth!!! I've followed some of what's been going on with Utah's water situation (worse drought than us), and those in the know are having a devil of a time getting any meaningful change to excessive water use. Like people are clueless as to why they shouldn't farm in a desert.🤦
I've seen California's leaving their irrigation system on till 11:30 with tons of runoff into the street. It's unfortunate when folks don't care.
@@nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1944 y'all are insensitive to whats happening. Wdym??? If you all woke up and voted for people that care instead of democrats maybe they'd fix the problems.
@@nyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa1944 THANK YOU!! This guy just degraded our communities work to save water.
Trying to convince people that these events are not the result of poor management, poor city design, and overall poor policy is intentional misinformation.
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@@rishabagarwal3628 Lol nice strawman. Can you think of anything but race? 'Cause no one here but you brought it up.
@@eattheleftist7154 to be honest nobody's first choice is to live in the conservative states. People end up settling in the conservative states due to cheap cost of living. If all things were equal cost wise then people wouldn't even bother to move to conservative states. I don't blame any of the immigrants for picking California as one of their desired locations since it is one of the least backwards states in the US.
@@doctorx1924 “one of the least backwards states” that’s a funny joke. When you show me a Cali city street not filled with aids needles, feces, homeless encampments, and violence I’ll stop laughing.
People go to California because it is backwards. You’re rewarded for being homeless, illegal immigrants won’t be deported, and if you have the right politics you can practically do anything without being punished.
Ive lived in California my entire 27 years of life. Its on a downward trend and fast. Its been so sad to see this once beautiful state turn into what it is now. Politics are a huge issue here. Many of the people in the major cities are so disconnected from reality and it shows. Despite all of our problems we keep re-electing people like Newsom and his cronies. The problems continue to worsen, the people keep crying that they want change, but they never do anything to make it happen. Those who are sane and fortunate enough to afford to move are the ones leaving the state. Sad to say but I hope to be joining them soon.
Were so happy to be in the FREE state of Tennessee. Most of the people we still know there, can't wait to leave. 30% of the people are GREAT, which in ca, means about 12 MILLION.
the video "its not politics"
everyone in the comments "its literally because of politics"
politics is the game which governs the management style and actions over a given section of the population and land. the actions which lead to the survival or destruction of that section of the populace are OBVIOUSLY to do with the reason why it would be dying. you cannot separate the actual functioning state of a community with its decisions. its ludicrous to pretend the action or inaction of california doesnt have anything to do with its death. "i burned my hand on the stove, but its not because i put my hand there."
The climate and geography certainly is a major factor, but the quality of life depends heavily on how politicians respond to such factors, so I'd say it's hard to say that it is or isn't because of politics. Large areas of California are very high up, for example, so imagine how little impact erosion would have if efforts were made to provide affordable housing and public transport in such areas. Instead all the focus still seems to be on selling expensive waterfront properties to the same billionaires who pay lobbyists to have all the political focus on them.
Ya politics is exactly why California sucks
the video didn't even back up his claim did he? he just declared it isn't politics, and that's that. lol.
Also since there’s so many people living there, the amount of people has caused many environmental issues. I mean central California used to have a large freshwater lake in it that was gradually destroyed by humans/farms. The lake that dried up was lake Tulare and it was once the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi.
I would support restoring Lake Tulare and buying up all the farmland in the Tulare basin and returning it to nature.
From what I've read, Lake Tulare and the associated lakes and wetlands we're drained quite rapidly due to intense agricultural activity. In fact, if I remember right, it was one mega farmer who did the bulk of the damage, however, I can't recall his name.
I would also support restoring that region, as I support preserving the River Delta area where I live. ✌️😎💜🌎
Yeah. There's some BS water rights clause that lets the farmers abuse the the water reserves . . .
Seize the land, Californians shouldn't have the same rights. Absolute disgrace of the country.
@@erinmcdonald7781 wasn't it a cotton farmer?
I just moved from California. The drought in the valley was one of the major reasons we decided to leave. It was so awful having bone dry 110 degree summers, fires for half the year, and dust storms. It was depressingly brown for all but three months of the year. It was awful how the land was managed there. Loads of water wasting. It's upsetting to see.
Hopefully you arent voting how Californians vote.
A lot of people here tend to take water for granted and have lots of lush green lawns for absolutely no reason. It is insanely hot during the summer. People know we have a drought and continue to throw water at their grass
Where do you live now.
@@jakoos Its not so much of how californians vote its about how the state propositions are written to be vague and/or misleading. This is rife in CA because there is ALOT of money to be made(5th largest economy in the world) and therefor incentives to bend the law to increase those profits.
I guess that's what happens to a state or country when it's way too populated? Too much infrastructure, deforestation, more factories, corporations, and architecture all this ruin natural environment and natural qualities.
If you were going to talk about California wildfires, you must address the mismanagement of the forest. As a person who lives in Sierra Nevada so they’re entire life, I know that the mismanagement and fire suppression in the forest is the main cause of the catastrophic wildfires. Anyone who fails to address the suppression of fire and mismanagement of the forests, really has zero understanding of where the wildfires come from
why would he do that.. that would expose a fundamental flaw in one sides thinking about land and resources and how they are preserved and managed. It would maybe make people ask? what happened in the 70's through the 90's that brought america's development to a stand still? why are all the big projects just too expensive here? and are we really managing our forest?
I remember a certain orangeman that tried to talk about this but was laughed at
Great opportunity for the government to invest in more forestry management jobs, and small businesses looking to work on a large public project like a green new deal style job program. The Sierra club and other activist organizations call for preserving these parks & trails but people need to get paid up front for time and materials to go haul lumber and burn it safely, its not enough to just sell the shit for $25 and expect campers 4x4 people to do it on charity. At least FDR sent the hobos out on trains to collect the fire wood, bottles, & cans back in the 30's.
Elaborate, how is forest management going to stop or lessen the fires in California?
What is forest management (according to you), how does it stop fires, and does it not matter that California is so arid that even the grass can catch with a small spark?
@@leos8019 "forest management" ie controlled burns and brush clearing to lessen the impact of catastrophic fires, fire watch towers, fire roads, fire ring construction at campsites to deter nomad fires public service announcements created to spread awareness (smokey the bear) increased funding in every level would help curb the current costs. Elementary stuff really...
As a Californian I can honestly say, many are aware of the devastating drought, but almost everyone doesn’t understand the severity of this drought bc they’re blind by the water that comes from the faucets, seems like there isn’t a drought going on and that’s what’s causing the ignorance!
I appreciate this video (despite how many people have commented that we are aware, I can tell you that I bet most people don’t even care).
I have lived in Cali all my life and only just started realizing how dead most regions are now, only because I’m finally traveling around my state and it was sad to see nothing but dried out barren fields in places I expected to see gorgeous green. :( it really is scary…
As a lifelong Californian, I would argue that politics has everything to do with our geography, as in land use and allocation of natural resources. The histories of water and real estate in Cali are full of politically powerful people, from Mulholland to Pelosi. Thats what makes it all far too complicated to cover in brief video. I think you could do better, given the time.
As far as the volatile and dynamic nature of our geography goes, thats what makes Cali so beautifully varied! Not many places you can go surfing in the morning, snow boarding in the afternoon, and be home for dinner that evening.
Not really much snow to do that anymore...
@@darkithnamgedrf9495 there's still plenty of snow for skiing on the mountains around where the ski resorts are. Also, that trip would certainly involve a considerable amount of driving, but it sure is possible.
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I believe the mountains in SoCal broke a couple records this year for the amount of snow received (Big Bear comes to mind).
I’m chilling here in San Diego, where conditions have hovered between “abnormally dry” and “minor drought /D-1” since like 2018. In fact, aside from relatively isolated homeless camps; we’ve been spared the onslaught of what seems t be plaguing every other Californian city. I’ve lived here since 2005, and never, aside from the constant reminders on the news about apocalyptic droughts, have I ever been directly or even indirectly affected. Waiting on some Mad Max style dusty environs, but I think that ain’t happening until like 2300 at this rate.
Not really, the problem is climate change and companies that want to make more profit by building in the seaside and misusing water. Most politics have to do with this is climate change and company regulations.
Is this a satire comment?
When a video title says "Its not politics" just get ready for it to be politics that they dont understand.
The video mentioned politics in the most minimal way
"We expect 10 feet of sea level rise by 2100"
In 70 years y'all got 4 inches of sea level rise, and 2 inches of subsidence. In the remaining 80 years I'd expect a change of 7 inches. If you choose to live on a cliff overlooking the ocean, that's your choice.
That's the politics of climate change. "Disaster is coming, and it's all your fault for using fossil fuel!"
sea level has been going up at 1.5 mm per year. land rise or fall accounts for the rest.
@@geraldfrost4710 I think that will be cool.
@@geraldfrost4710 it's because it's getting exponentially worse. It's not linear. Things are getting worse and those worse things are making things even worse. Problems compound and snowball. We are still very much in the "early stages" of climate change.
bingo
"It's not politics"
**Proceeds to describe problems caused by climate change, unregulated water and land usage, bad forestry practices and urban planning*
What do you think politics are?
It's not unregulated, it's overly regulated and in a very poor fashion.
@@jeremiahblake3949 I like it.
Funny how you blame it on politics when republicans are the ones who deny that climate change is an existential threat.
@@jeremiahblake3949 If water and land usage was less regulated for a extended period of time.. that would be the end for the state.
@@whatwhat3432523 imagine if almond farmers had to pay fair price for water, if folks could compete with pg and e for utility maintenance, if tesla could actually expand its facilities without years of red tape.
Less agrarian water waste, less forest fires, more and cheaper EVs. Sounds like the end to me.
I'm born and raised in San Francisco's Bay Area. We are so well aware of the drought going on but we can't get enough people to care. Especially major companies and more wealthy areas. If you ever want to move to California, don't. It is unbelievably heartbreaking watching your home deteriorate at such a rate. The amount of people native to California that are desperately trying to flee while they can, while people from other places are flooding in is overwhelming
*Politicians:* Sea Levels are rising
*Also politicians:* buying up all the beach front properties.
Make that make sense
fear-mongering is nothing new to democrat-controlled territories
““California is put at risk by sea level rise””
Louisiana: “hold my beer”
I think Norfolk, VA, home of major Navy bases, etc, is right there with you. ✌️😎💚🌎
@@erinmcdonald7781 haha I’m from Virginia Beach right nearby and go to school at LSU majoring in wetland science. I definitely understand where you’re coming from.
More like hold our daiquiri
"But Louisiana has Repubwicans in it! That make no sense!"
Hold my swamp!
glad to see in the comments that plenty of yall know that actually yes, politics and the bad policies and laws of corrupt politicians over the course of many decades has a lot to do with it and IS the cause of much of it.
We must hold ourselves accountable or it spreads
Just spreads
Please point out the exact policies and laws you are referring to, I'd love to hear it. Not a fan of most politicians in existence, but people like you claiming to understand environmental science when it is clearly just a ruse to support your team is just a sad way to live.
@Kyle, that’s pretty easy. CA infamously refuses to do proper forest management or controlled burnings, in the name of saving trees. They also resist clean nuclear power and dams (nuclear power is by far the best and only ecologically sound option that works for the future.) Other states (who don’t have our wildfire problems) and even Trump have called us out on it. And they’re right.
Newsoms wineries aren't looking brown. You know...the wineries that magically stayed open during that pandemic.... They don't care about us. It's called corruption.
">Climate change exists, therefore California's Geography sucks."
">California is in the ring of fire, therefore it sucks, regardless of the fact that that's where the majority of the Earth's population lives as well."
Edit: LOL DUDE CHANGED THE TITLE NICE ONE BRO
This video makes it sound like everyone is about to die, California has arguably the most unique Geography of any U.S State. It has both the lowest point in the contiguous U.S below sea level, and the highest point, the former also being the location of hottest recorded natural temp. on Earth. It's a gross oversimplification to say that rising sea levels will in essence cripple the state. By this logic, if California's geography sucks because of water, than Louisiana and Florida's Geography REALLY sucks as the majority of their coasts will be completely underwater. Just look at New Orleans, nobody will disagree with you there.
The issue with non alarmist content is that people are so overstimulated that you can not even get their attention with normal titles aso. You may get somewhat attention but never all you really need.
it sucks and thats it
That is what I'm saying why people are moving to Florida when it is literally sinking.
Geography isn't suck
Geography is good
California will always be the Golden state. The nature and possibilities are unmatched by any other us state. We have flaws but there's way more good than bad here.
The sea has always been advancing in California. When I was a child in the 1960s in the Pacific Palisades, we would walk to the end of the main street that ended abruptly at the cliffs and see things like plumbing coming out of the hillside going nowhere. I later understood that houses fell into the sea there.
Also, another contributing factor to wildfires is the governments opposition to logging and mismanagement of the subsequent "saved" forests, which has led to lots of fuels for the fires.
Where are the trees the government has saved? You are breathing them...
I was there to, we all knew this was happening. Save a tree and let the forest burn. And please don't build a DAM
We Californian’s have been dealing with drought conditions my whole 61 years, we know. Thank you for the information.
This problem will never go away since our government no longer serves the people
A lot of it really comes down to partisan divides and not doing what makes sense, but doing what follows ideology. Immigration makes economic sense but Republicans try to restrict it while taxing everyone at 65 percent makes no sense but it still happens.
@@epicmatter3512 isnt calafornia a democrats state tho?
@@dbamoghh8287 It doesn't matter. Both sides since 9/11 and arguably since the 80's have proven to be corrupt, they just have different ways of going about it and pandering to the public. It's gonna take a long while still before most Americans realize and stop picking sides that don't serve them or care about them.
@@nusoul facts
Maybe you should do something about that
Of course ALL CALIFORNIANS know about the drought. Claiming otherwise is like saying that not everyone in Finland knows that it gets cold.
I don't know maybe he was talking about Californian babies and toddlers.
Being from Cali the biggest issue of these is the large population living mostly in the arid part of the state from the 1900s onward taking the water from the areas with wet climates and not really replacing that water. Same problem with the water table in mid western states were big farms have to produce lots of food and thus start unregulated water tapping of the massive water table under the Mississippi water delta.
but... there's too many of us for the land and environment to provide us... right?
I honestly have no idea why so many Californians want to live in the desert anyway. Okay, there's fewer bugs, but deserts destroy everything in their path.
@@deusexaethera its cheap
@@okamijubei Not necessarily. California dumps billions of gallons of processed waste water into the ocean instead of recycling the waste water which would be smarter in a dry arid place. I know people aren't comfortable with that, but you don't have to drink it if they do it right. My dad worked for LA county and was amazed by how much water is literally thrown away instead of managed.
Perhaps we should strictly control where people live and make them get permission to move from the holy climate management authorities?
Let's save the planet with totalitarianism!
The fact they had to clarify that it's none political shows us that it is widely known that it's falling due to bad politics.
Central Valley native here, great video! This drought is really no joke, kinda scary
Imagine living in a state where your government and nature work against you
So pretty much all coastal states?
Yeah, that vicious Mediterannean climate is really after us. Wildfires and droughts are a concern, volcanic threat isn't something of concern and lastly, I could give a shit about some wealthy people losing their vacation homes to erosion.
This is the entire west coast...Western Washington State is counting down to a projected 9.0 Earthquake and Tsunami courtesy of the Juan de Fuca fault.
So pretty much the whole country
You are living in a country where your government is working against you.
Bless your heart for letting me know that "most Californians" arent even aware there's a drought. I did not know that. Did you know that most youtube creators arent even aware of what "most people" know?
If most Californians ARE aware of the problem and y'all haven't solved it, how retarded does that make you?
I remember visiting relatives in CA, going to the beach, doing all sorts of things on the coast. Now, the beach is just gone, along with several buildings that were constructed for the beach. We knew one of the families who owned one of those beachside homes, and they told us everyone in the neighborhood raised money to build a seawall to stop the water from crumbling their homes. Crazy stuff.
Some would love to go be a tourist in California. But getting a Visa to the US is not easy for everyone. So some people are not going to cry the Pacific Ocean will extend to Nevada.
^hahahha
Shut up already. you literally just made that up. Which town was this? And no beach is “gone” in California. I remember going to a beach and Texas and it was pitch black water with brown piss stained sand with homes on stilts and mosquitos buzzing around like pests. That towns beach is now completely gone
we are dying, especially in the Northern California- if you are renting, or own a own a home- our property tax has sky rocketed, home owners association payment is not even tax deductible...if you are earning 250K in San Francisco, you are considered a median class..
"wWhy California is Dying"
The rest of the country: "How do we make it die faster and keep the idiots from leaving at the same time? We don't want them."
**A non-Californian badly explains Californias problems.
Yes, we’re aware of most of this. Especially the droughts you mentioned most of us may not be aware of. We are, we simply can’t do much and it has a lot to do with politics.
The problems in our cities and the environmental problems have a lot to do with politics.
I know it’s hype to shit on California mostly because a lot of the other states do it (often for fair reasons) but you’re kind of talking about problems from a very removed perspective and at times saying we have perspectives that we simply do not have.
We can’t stop global warming from making the sea levels rise alone, it’s very difficult to get our greedy overlords to invest in environmentally friendly water infrastructure, we’ve been actually coming out of the drought in some places for a few years now, people in California often have so many problems within the cities alone that it’s difficult to see all the issues our farms face and even if we do see those issues… they have different local governments that most city people can’t vote towards and if they somehow do vote for something during state elections they may actually make the problem worse by being misinformed or tricked into voting towards a worse bill that has a pretty name or slogan behind it. They’re not farmers or scientists and it’s difficult to know for sure which bill is actually pro-environment but on other hand the farmers may be more conservative and want quick solutions to their problems in order to feed their families. Completely disregarding any environmental effects hence the constant negative feedback loop.
It’s good that you’re trying to bring some awareness but you’re sort of generalizing our attitudes towards these problems and/or making it seem like it’s not something political that is quite clearly very political and can only be resolved with certain ballot measures.
You DARE to leave a comment telling an outsider what ACTUAL Californians think?!
Lol
Nah as a Californian he’s right on almost everything. Just that politics serve to make these problems worse
If it is politics, there is something you can do, VOTE BETTER
@@ouwesdebouwes3224 vote BLUE
I can't think of anything in California that isn't politically tainted 🤔
Cool vid,
I’m a CA native and Pacifica was like my second home. People built homes on the cliffs for the beautiful view and would often assume it would be gone within less than 100 years. It’s sort of a morbid ongoing joke. But thankfully many of the schools in the area are very environmentally conscious and teach a lot about the ocean. Also fun fact Pacifica is home to the greatest taco bell in the world and I think it’s the most profitable Taco Bell in CA because it’s right on the beach.
Love the beach tacobell! I was at that beach as a kid and somehow didnt notice it when I walked in, I turned around at one point and there was a TACOBELL! I freaked out hahaha
"Is right on the beach"
The ocean: "It's free real estate."
Yes, I get the land is beautiful, and it seems untouched over there and hardly any tampering with nature... directly. Indirectly... I am not sure with that. As humans I guess we are the demons of this earth.
They renovated it into a Taco Bell Cantina recently and now you can drink alcohol there too its frikkin sweet
Cannot put some mangroves.
*"by 2040 this whole city will be underwater"*
they've been saying that for the past forty years lmao
I would say politics is the #1 reason California is dying. Highest taxes, cost of living, crime, homelessness, worst regulations and cost to start a business…… I can go on. Look who is running this state!
Lol as a Californian the only concern I have that you brought up is the drought, and I'm aware that it could be a major problem in the coming years. A larger concern for me is the cost of living. Rent is F@cking ridiculous, and so is the cost to buy a house, and so is the cost to buy an empty lot. Looking forward fleeing this state. Gonna miss the hunting and fishing though.
Come to British Columbia
@@decklanhobbins575 I've thought about moving to Canada, I hunt and fish so it seems like it would be a good fit, not sure about the winters tho.
@@skypieper yup I’m in northern British Columbia and it’s beautiful and perfect for everything you say except cold. About 4 months of the year you can expect -10 to -30 Celsius but in the summers it’s +30 Celsius and beautiful. If you are in the Vancouver area in southern B.C. They don’t often get below freezing all year round
@@skypieper I think the winters weren't as severe as it was use to before...
$$$$ $$$ $$$$ $$$$$$$$ Economics 101: Supply vs. Demand. Throughout the 60s and 70s, CA was viewed, rightly or not, as among the most innovative and progressive places in the world. But they eventually bought into the overconsumption and deregulation methods to feed capitalism. Among other things that meant politicians and business groups promoting overimmigration policies (of ALL ethnicities, economic classes, ages and skill levels), so that over the last 30 years immigration alone has added at least 45 million here-plus at least 11 million illegals. With all of these numbers-plus domestic increases-corporations continued making super profits from soaring consumption and wages, stagnating well below inflation rates, from flooded labor markets. In fact, corporations have done so well that they can make deals with overseas tax havens to do low cost manufacturing and job outsourcing. Americans have long been aware of over immigration but said and did nothing for fear of being labeled xenophobes or nimbys-baseless claims since countless immigrants for years are skilled professionals-but who exploit the infrastructure and public services which Americans have been taxed to support all of their working lives. Such immigrants should be reforming their homeland governments and diversifying their economies, instead of causing inflation, low wages and driving up the cost and down the quality and quantity of every basic human need in the US. If those in CA, NY and much of the rest of the nation would have acted with wisdom and fairness upon these facts-by revolting against the realities of NAFTA and the New World Order-they could have created a very different future for themselves.
I don't think it's correct to say a place as geographically diverse as California has the worst geography. It is what it is and people will do with it as they will. It can be argued the geography of the Netherlands is not great either, but people find ways around that.
California is very geographically active, so it shouldn't have come as a surprise that the coastline is falling into the sea. People who want to live close to the ocean continue to flock there and property developers continue to endulge them.
Earthquakes are just something that Californians non-chalantly acknowledge to exist, but not really feel bothered by it. Modern building codes make it so buildings will not topple (unless you are Millenium Tower) and many older buildings have undergone seismic retrofit.
The only unsustainable thing is the states water problem. California is exiting a historically wet period in its history and there may be too much people and industry build up to br sustained. Agriculture might not have the most efficient water usage, but the irony is many farmers think the drought is a big conspiracy theory made up by state politicians to restrict their farm output. (You had to have driven past the billboards the farmers out up during the drought to believe it.)
They’re stuck in the “everybody else’s fault” syndrome; they don’t accept the idea that many farmers might over-use water resources. Add onto that, the fracking industry (oil companies) also sucks a huge amount of groundwater and replaces it with a noxious cocktail of chemicals they refuse to identify. These poisonous by-products further contaminate the remaining groundwater, making it unusable for agriculture, unless you’re willing to eat food similar to what is produced in China. No lie.
I grew up in Nevada and spent a lot of time in California, and am currently a student in geography and ecology. I think the most frustrating thing about all of this is the fact that there are more efficient farming techniques and technologies already available that will never be adopted because conservatives aren't capable of doing anything other than throwing infantile temper tantrums. On the topic of the Neherlands, they developed verticle indoor farms that use a fraction of the water our bronze-age style farms do, while also requiring far less pesticides and having a larger output of food. I've studied this, and while initially expensive the long term benefits would be massive due to the mentioned water efficiency while also requiring less land. But how to you get uneducated conservatives to accept this? They can't even figure out vaccines!
If we can't modernize our currently unsustainable agriculture methods, our societies will collapse
I remember those billboards and signs. They were mad about loosing water to Los Angeles. They weren't calling the drought a conspiracy.
@@alexheschong2717 Yeah, I've talked to plenty of farmers in both Nevada and California though that claim it's a conspiracy to steal their water. They don't believe there's a drought and won't do anything about it. The worst are in Utah where the entire state believes the drought isn't real. Utah currently uses more water per capita than any other state in the union.
Careful there might be some truth to it
A little alarmist. Every single native californian knows about the droughts, we've been having them for a while now, it is gonna be a big problem though. Earthquakes don't bother us. Wildfires suck but we've gotten better at fighting them. I fail to see how collecting snow runoff is "unusual," and you didn't really explain how it is.
It's at most a secondary thought for most dams
Outside of california, there are ~250 dams meant for runoff while the rest are mostly meant to store normal rain.
There are more dams meant to ensure locks can operate correctly (~550) than snow runoff dams
Mind you, i'm talking about the "large dam" classification where there are ~65k dams included
lmao we are better are fighting them now.. instead of just doing what we did before to actually manage the land.
You sound proud of this, you shouldn't be
Having lived in the San Diego metro for 25 years, it always amazed me that the city has powerful pumps to drain floodwater, not into reservoirs for future use, but out to sea.
I grew up in CA and it was a wonderful life. 1/3 of fruits & veggies from Central Valley. Also FL is another large food producer. So much agriculture land is being sold to housing developers (and commercial developers for all the store to support people who live there) so, were also losing another major food growing area.
If you really think this has nothing to do with politics, you just aren't paying attention.
Just FYI “$8bn in property” in California is like a single small neighborhood.
Honestly. a 1300 sq ft house is a million dollars anywhere within 20 miles of the coast.
Counties issue building permits where there shouldn’t be permanent buildings. This isn’t unique to California. But California is severely guilty of it.
That varies from one situation to the next. "Environmental regulations" are conveniently overlooked, with the payment of huge bribes and kickbacks. (Republicans and Democrats don't really care about the planet; that's just a front for money-laundering.)
However, when somebody actually wants to build something good and useful, some Liberal snob will play "NIMBY," and blatantly violate his right to build on his own property.
True, a similar problem is happening in the outer banks of north carlolina. Stronger hurricanes destroy coastal property every few years cause the outer bands are just sand bars that are like 20 feet above sea level. If you build a house right on the ocean I feel like there is some inherent risk whether it’s on a cliff in Pacifica or beach in the south east.
@@AndrewScott1337 … exactly. This problem isn’t unique anywhere in America. Fires, floods, storms, hurricanes, etc.
Firstly, most of this video is a little alarmist. A workshop I attended with independent seismology and climatology organizations explained that, although many of these topics will happen, the effects are dismal compared to the ability for California to adapt and redevelop.
Also, you should make a video about the growing importance and populations of the San Joaquin Valley. Fresno, Stockton, Visalia, and Bakersfield - along with the Sacramento Valley - are swelling in development, political power, and population. They also are slightly more resilient to climate change than SF and LA are
Difference is though that effects of the erosion are assured and their ability to act and invest in infrastructure isn’t.
They are not more resilient to climate change than San Francisco. Los Angeles I can see as they have more access to water from the rivers and mountains near them from snowmelt. But it doesn’t even get that much more than LA and LA when accounting for Lake Arrowhead and other areas, actually has the same or better water access. It has has more elevation than the central valley which despite drier climate, gets worst outcomes from local flooding. For San Francisco, it get over double the rain that Sacramento gets and way more than the San Joaquin alone. Iy also has all the possible river run off they get combined through the bay while having more protection from higher elevation. On top of that water, they have the wet Santa cruz mountain water which is the same water that also feeds the redwoods.
You're lucky you found someone willing to tell you the truth.
@@SS-yj2le
Plus! Los Angeles is starting to get hit with La Niña which is good despite the little rain it offers; and the Carlsbad Desalination Plant in San Diego County is improving it’s energy efficiency and emitting less pollutants & brine waste. It’s has a long way to eliminate its energy and environmental penalty.
@@SS-yj2le Los Angeles relies on importing water from Northern California, they do not have more water naturally at all. Have you ever heard of the Los Angeles Aqueducts and the San Joaquin Valley route State Water Project. Next time you are driving over the Grapevine look west and you can see the massive pipelines that are taking water from Northern California.
You make a video about Colorado massive growth and how will it be able to be supported. I've noticed in just the 4 years of living in Colorado springs, there has been nothing but more and more neighborhoods being built and traffic getting crazy. But my biggest worry is where will we get the water to support all these people? Already barely rains here and reservoirs are already shrinking yearly. My 2nd time going to the Blue Mesa Reservoir(biggest lake in CO) you can clearly see how badly it shrunk.
Born and raised in California, wouldn't trade it for anything else.
"California is dying!", says people who think California consists solely of beaches and farmland.
Forest fires too
At least it's not snowing like in Kansas I hate it here😝
@@jennyzubiri9312 : Forest fires are a natural part of the trees' lifecycle in California. Some species don't reproduce at all if they don't burn. The only people who have a problem with it are the humans who insist on trying to live in the forest.
@@Thespeedrap Except that in the northern part of Ca. it does snow 😁
@@jasonlee8156 And in the mountains, including the SoCal mountains. You've heard the saying, "you can go surfing and skiing on the same day"?
Well, it is politic that California digs its own graves. Many years of rapid urban development has led to exhausted resources, environmental damages and over-population.
Politicians in CA have veered the interest of Californians to supposedly "controversial" issues and away from real matters like drought, broken infrastructures, and joblessness.
Drought is a major concern. Poor infrastructure is a problem nationally and, having lived in a few different states, is certainly worse is many other places.
Volcanoes in California aren't going to be that devastating. Let's just ask the active ones:
The small Salton Buttes lava domes aren't that threatening, easy evacuations;
The group of maars that are the Ubehebe Craters are low threat as well, their entire formation was linked to 1 short-lived event;
The line that goes from Mammoth Mountain to Mono Lake is in an isolated area, no real threats there again, unless Long Valley supervolcano does another big one;
The Clear Lake volcanic field has been largely non-explosive despite the acidic lava present. Explosive activity was limited to maars. Populated areas around may be caught off guard.
Lassen has been known to make large ones since its 1914-1917 eruption. Not too many people live nearby so easy evacuations. Watch for airlines;
Shasta will easily be the most disruptive one because of its proximity with I-5, vulnerable to pyroclastic flows and lahars, the most dangerous in the state;
Medicine Lake will not have the same effect in comparaison.
I wouldn't be surprised if mother nature declared war against Silicon Valley.
Politics have a lot to do with it, poor city/resource management, bad policies, bad forest management (forest fires) and trying to convince people that it’s not political at all is either blatant misinformation or incredibly ignorant
To me personally, California is a state where the cons of living there have started vastly outweighing the pros. These days, you couldn't pay me enough to move to California.
I love people chiming in who have never lived in California
@@williammaywood4194 you don't have to live somewhere to acknowledge its bad. or to have an opinion.
@Hair Barnes In all honesty California is like everywhere else its just so overblown anytime anything bad happens
@@williammaywood4194 but not every other state as popular as California has been historically has started losing population, I think it ultimately comes down to politics, because it not only effects people's lives, with high cost of living. but also effects the environment. like wildfires and droughts.
@@williammaywood4194 ive never been to California.
You should talk to a Californian but over all video is accurate other than small caviet that most Californians are aware of the drought I remember learning about it in elementary school and sf is not considered central California
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California won't fall into the ocean, lmao. That's an unsubstantiated urban myth.
I remember that California was going to fall into ocean in the 1970s.
All the climate change talk been going on since 60s. The water will rise, but not going be the movies 2012. Haha
I’ve lived in California for nearly 50 years, there’s no better state. Sixth largest economy in the world, not in North America, not just in the lower 48, the f ing world! I’m 64 and I can’t retire because money just piles up at my front door, more opportunity than I have ever seen and where I live I have ten backcountry campsites within a half days walk from my house, we bike or backpack, drink from springs year round and get all the free firewood we can burn for heating our house. We live cheap, we live free in a place where people don’t trash the environment, what more can you ask for, oh yeah better forest management is a plus we have it where I live but generally the forest service can’t compete with global warming. So help out, stop the squeal, park that gas guzzler!
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I think 1 issue can solve the other. The sea levels are rising, and wont stop anytime soon right? So what if we built a system to capture the rising sea water and funnel it to desalination plants. The cleansed water can be used to help manage the drought, and the excess brackish water can be put into reservoirs for natural evaporation since it can't go back into the ocean without harming the sea life. Do this along with proper forest management and Cali's ecological issues are solved. Also, sea water provides tritium and deuterium for nuclear fusion power, so there will already be a supply for when nuclear fusion comes around.
I'll be running dor president in 2040, hope to have your votes lol.
Trust me it’s politics controlling how these issues are handled
The sea level will not rise 7-10 feet by 2100. That prediction is based on the absolute worst case scenario. It will likely only rise up to 3 feet.
what makes you think that worst case scenario wont happen? i dont see china or india rdeucing their emissions anytime soon, in fact both are ramping them up, especially coal.
@@captainalex157 The scientists are exaggerating worst case scenarios. In the past, they've predicted a number of worst case scenarios for like 2020 and 2010 that didn't happen...
@@emilv.3693 to be clear a 2m sea level rise is projected for 2100, this is not something youll see soon, but it will happen.
@@captainalex157 How much has the sea risen in the last 40 years, and what were the projections for sea rise 40 years ago? I've heard endless doomsday prophecies from scientists and politicians alike all my life, and to date, not only have zero of them proven accurate, but none of them were even remotely close to reality, nor have I seen any of the prophesiers admit that their predictions were wildly incorrect and their models based on faulty assumptions and data. Usually they just throw out a new prophecy and demand more funding for their pet projects.
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There's a good reason why California doesn't maintain the forest. They have billions invested in Calfire in equipment and the largest employer in the state. If they maintained the forest, all that equipment and their employees would sit idle. Fires in California is big business for them. Maintenance of the forest would cost less and the state would go bankrupt. In Finland the forest capital of the world, they pay the homeless to clean the forest floor. Little to no fires. It is politics.
Wildfire in California almost exclusively started in "Protected" forest where there was no selective cutting allowed. California was so quick to ban selective cutting to " Protect the forests but then failed to spend money to manage them. Ergo the only managed forest we're those with selective cutting because part of the cutting permits required Loggers to cleanup those area as part of the Cutting Contracts! But Hey You won't see them put those fires out too quickly, Fighting forest fires has become a Billion Dollar industry ! P.S. Instead of letting all that Acreage burn they should have allowed selective cutting, then they would have had cleaned up forest and Wood wouldn't cost an Arm and a Leg! But what do I know!
I get that this video is targeting the cons about Californias geography so it’s most likely a negative video, but the person narrating this video makes it seem like it’s uninhabitable state and everyone in it is in danger….
Give it a 100 years. You never know how bad ( or good ) something gets.
It's really not for conservatives. Doubt many conservatives are hoping for climatic disasters in California based on geography, that wouldn't help anyone. If anything they'd rather blame poor governance for the drought. Also I see no reason this danish dude would be targeting conservatives.
@@chris1z142 by “cons” he doesn’t mean conservative, but cons as in “pros and cons”.
It might be, have you looked at the geography and climate of the region?
@@gryoluther7242 it's like a dog whistle, ya know?
Drought, earthquakes, wildfires, Hollywood AND coastal erosion. California never stood a chance huh
Don’t forget Silicon Valley 😂
We live in a wasteland apparently
The central valley used to be a giant sea and just a few decades ago had rivers still running through it, but Los Angeles sucked all the water up.
That's not entirely true. LA took all the water out of the Owens River valley up 395. The water in the Central valley goes to all the farmers in the Central valley plus the cities in the Central valley that use it for drinking water and all the other stuff.
@@dougc190 Southern California takes water from Owen's Valley but it takes most of its water from the Delta. The California Aqueduct carries water from the Delta, about 30% of that water is used by Central California farms, mostly in Kern County, the other 70% goes to Pyramid Lake where it is distributed throughout Greater Los Angeles. Los Angeles also takes about a billion gallons a day from the Colorado River.
@@IsaiahDanielJohnson you're right it was just a quick response, saying that Los Angeles took all the water from the Central valley.
@@dougc190 Yeah the original comment was misleading saying that the Central Valley used to be a sea. The Central Valley used to be a sea like 700,000 years ago. Unless he was talking about the draining of Lake Tulare which was not Los Angeles fault at all.
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Everything about California is so mismanaged that yes I do believe it is dying. Many people are leaving and not as many people are moving in. I have lived in California my whole life and I love the weather but It's just not worth it anymore. For the last year I have been looking for another state to move to and haven't quite made a decision yet… and no I don't have liberal views. I'm all for constitutional carry and freedom so if you'll have any suggestions let me know!
You've got to include the politics in that cesspool of a state, because environmental catastrophes as well as the leaders they vote in there go hand in hand.
God damn. Sea leves rising is something which is utterly scary: I mean, a LOT of populace worldwide lives close to the sea, not to mention most harbors being vitally important to trade.
If you use the tool he used even 10meter rise aint the end of the world, we can still use harbours infact they will be bigger. The issue around it is more of just the severe weather associated with the climate change being more storms ect.
Around 25% of world population lives in the area that will be drowned by 20 m sea level rise
@@ishmyboy of course we can just move but counires like bangladesh or indonesia are gonna have their capitals submerged with just 2m sea level rise. That means either slam an extra 2m concrete on the city or relocating it, both being a logistical nightmare. and really those countires cant afford that.
Waterways provide access, we'll continue to live by the water regardless of where it rises to. The bigger issue will be moving to the new uphill for coastal cities on flatlands where higher ground can be miles away, or if a small island not at all.
@@captainalex157 Indonesia is already moving it's capital and would have to so do with or without climate change. Poor planning and over expansion lead the city to drain down it's groundwater and because it's built in a swamp the city is now sinking.
Climate change is real and it is major problem, but if your going to use examples you have to use ones that make sense.
It's all about politics with California. Poor political planning and/or poor political policies all equal poor lack in judgement and bad things happening. Erosion on the coast of California should have been expected it due to it's being something that was going to happen anyway it's just increased the rate with the current weather. Droughts again is poor political planning and policies.
California is far from dead… this is always the take from ppl who have never been here and just go off what the media says.
Don't tell UCLA. It received 150,000 applications for admission last year. Number one in the USA.
Drought? Yet the California coastal commission just rejected a permit for a desalinization plant in Orange County.
Life-long Californian here... you forgot the biggest disaster we face... a disaster we continue to face every day and showing no signs of letting up... which as our grossly wasteful and incompetent state government. Many of our "problems" are "government mismanagement problems." In a State where water is so scarce, not only is our government NOT increasing supply, but is looking to ELIMINATE dams. This, in turn, causes a massive reliance on ground water drilling. California's forests have been mismanaged for decades as California's hippie "Don't kill anything ever" mentality has led to stockpiles of fuel turning what once were manageable blazes into all-consuming bonfires. Don't feel sorry for us. Many of us VOTED for this. So I must disagree with the title... it may 'seem' like its not politics. but it is.
Yes we are aware of the drought. Its not the first nor will it be the last- I wonder if this person has ever been to California.
I have lived in areas of and experienced: wildfires, tornadoes, floods, typhoon, earthquake. Pretty much everywhere has some potential natural disaster. I don’t think that is why people are leaving the state. California boomed since WW2 and that boom is leveling off and opportunities are opening in cheaper states like Texas (which I once lived in). California is expensive but then places that people like to live in are. Where it is cheep to live is typically because most people do not want to live there!
Our geographical locations certainly have some disadvantages. However when it is 70 degrees and sunny here in February how cold is it in Chicago, New York most of Texas? How do they like that? Yes we live with earthquakes but we also have some of the most beautiful and diverse landscape in the world because of that. On a weekend you can enjoy the central valley plain, or the ocean, or the desert, or the mountains, or a great city from just about anywhere in the state. Typically any of this is only a few hours drive at most.
Cultural Diversity - Yes I regard this as a positive and California is one of the most diverse of our state. Just think of the food options: Indian food, German Food, Thai, middle eastern, and of course some of the best Mexican. you name it.
I lived there for 63 years, don't tell me how Ca. is. Let's see high CRIME and TAXES. Your losing more freedoms each year. In 2022 I have new FREEDOMS in the GREAT STATE of TENNESSEE.
It IS politics. Especially their migration policy. Watching videos of LA and SF from 1950 and comparing it to now is just heartbreaking.
Born an raised in sweet California. Have moved up by Canada to escape the drought and insane prices of everything. War planning entire life in Cali. forever... But now just miss it terribly. Home sick for the quiet sweet smell of the redwoods we lived near in Humboldt county. Worried about family left behind, and paradise drying up and burning. Uuuuggg
video should be titled "Telling you i'm not a californian without saying i'm not a californian"
The drought wouldn’t be a problem if California didn’t divert most of the water to Southern California. This is a self-inflicted catastrophe. They messed with the water cycle.
The East Coast, especially florida, is much more vulnerable than California.
"a fight against an opponent who will never lose"
just call the Dutch over, they could help
houses should never have been built on coastal cliffs. millions of people should not live in a desert.
“Not politics” = “100% politics”
Yes, it is, the policy is what has caused most if the problems.
Gotta love how 80% of the fucking water is used to grow crops that should never be grown in California.
@@arandomzoomer4837 Rice in particular. It is our current cash crop and *extremely* water inefficient.
Solution for eroding cliffs=Don't build on them without prior knowledge/move buildings away before further damage is caused. Solution for water=Beavers and the use of
Continuous Contour Trenches. The Solution for Earthquakes/Volcanic eruption=Move away. Climate change needs more priority comparable to the chlorofluorocarbons ruining the ozone layer.
where the heck will California get BEAVERS? not to mention if the beavers reproduce at the speed of light, it's the Australian war against GOATs all over again. Humanity should stop introducing foreign species to other places :/
@@auliamate Beavers are already in California, And are in every other state for that matter, The two places they barely cover are Nevada, and most of southern California. They are a keystone species, which means they help support the growth of ecosystems.
@@auliamate they're native to the northern side of the state and very important there. Otters and salmon hang out up there too, a lot of people just forget how wet and forested the northern end is.
As the narrator from cyberpunk would say "And Pacifica is.....well...Pacifica is still Pacifica".
It's like Groudon and Kyogre fighting in California while disturbing the peace. Causing serious damage.
It's not just wildfires that are a massive problem with drying soil. We're also losing A LOT of our topsoil because it gets turned into dust during the prolonged droughts and then gets carried away by the wind. This topsoil is why we're even able to farm and plant vegetation. Not all earth is equal, and a lot of the earth that is left behind is not suitable for farming or adequate water retention. Also, without the dense topsoil, we're already starting to experience desertification in lots of areas. Dust bowls are a direct consequence of this.
All in all, unless we're getting these droughts under control, we're going to have a pretty darn bad time in one or two decades.
This vid is pure negativity lol, its still a habitable state guys...
Agreed
when people hear california they hear "liberals" and label the entire state as such, completely forgetting (especially in norcal) that there is plenty of red areas out here. like seriously, look at how many votes trump got in california. does that really make it seem like everyone here is city folk left winger? so they make it out to be this hell state because then they can shit on the "liberals". im literally not even conservative myself but i still find it stuipid how many people label california some 100 tax rate hell hole. yes we have our problems, yes prices are high and regulation is constricting compared to "do whatever you want" states like texas and such, but its still an ok place to live we got mountains and parks and farmland to visit too its not just LA suburbs lol
@@sovietunion7643 They think all of Cali is like LA and San Francisco, just like how people think all of NY state is like NYC.
"The geography" is killing California. Right... Definitely not the leadership /s
Leadership and agricultural industry* and the fact that California's are surprisingly cheap (we don't like being taxed).
drought causes:
-large population
-they love almonds
-they need almonds
Also rice!
California in the last 10-15 years has become a lot more overcrowded, and chaotic, you almost can’t go anywhere in this state nowadays without be bombarded by a horde of people, especially loud, rude, nasty, egotistical, self absorbed, and annoying kinds of people, and on top of that the wildfires, drugs, homelessness, and untreated mental illness have all become problems of epic proportions, because of our greedy, and corrupt people in power who do almost nothing to remedy these issues.
Basicly its both society political and natural problems
Why? Arrogance, insanity, deranged ideologies, and plain corruption.
You lost me at "its not political". But either way, it looks like we're still getting our wish. California is sliding off into the ocean.
Politics definitely play a role in why California is on the decline
How so? are they gods of rain?
A bit alarmist. 7-10 ft sea level rise by 2100? Where did that come from green peace? The most pessimistic predictions are about 1/2 of that, assuming we do nothing. As far as California starving how ridiculous. We might have to cut back on farming a bit. Just the rice farmers use 10 times the water Los Angeles uses. Dairy and almonds also use a lot of water.
Plus ocean rise is a natural result of leaving the last ice age, it isn't really to do with current climate trends (not at a timescale below millennia, anyway). Even if the planet got significantly cooler over the next century, the sea level would continue to rise steadily for a very long time. The ocean is mostly still a huge mass of very cold water and has been slowly warming for the last 10,000 years, as the planet moved out of the ice age. Since warm water is slightly less dense than cold water, this causes a continuous rise in total volume every year due to thermal expansion. There's nothing anyone can do to stop it, it's just part of how the planet functions. It'll eventually lower again when this warm period ends and the next ice age starts. All people can do is adapt and move cities inland or reclaim land near the coasts, which is exactly what cities do anyway as any long-term time-lapse of a city will show.
As for California specifically, it seems like California should just start building nuclear power plants and desalination plants near the main urban populations. Both could significantly reduce many of the problems the state faces, though reducing environmental and economic regulations that cause wildfires and drive companies away would be a good step as well. Beyond that, policies and tax cuts aimed at encouraging people to move out of the cities into smaller communities would eventually reduce the ridiculous real estate costs in the more densely populated areas, which are among the largest economic burdens residents deal with.
He once had this titled as "Why California is dying (And it's not politics!)", but changed it later.