VAST FIELDS OF COTTON AT THE BORBA FARMS NEAR FRESNO REQUIRE MASSIVE HARVESTING AND PACKING MACHINERY TO BRING THE CROP IN. COTTON IS A THIRSTY PLANT AND THE FIELDS NEED IRRIGATION ON A GRAND SCALE TO REMAIN PRODUCTIVE. IN A STATE WHERE COMPETITION FOR WATER IS BECOMING INTENSE, COTTON MAY BECOME A CASUALTY. AS THE CLIMATE CHANGES, NOT ONLY WILL THE WATER SUPPLY SUFFER, BUT CALIFORNIA’S ‘HEAT WAVE SEASON’ WILL ALSO EXTEND FROM AN AVERAGE OF 115 DAYS IN A YEAR TO BETWEEN 149 AND 204 DAYS, DEPENDING ON THE SUCCESS OF GLOBAL EFFORTS TO CURB EMISSIONS. THIS WILL AFFECT THE CULTIVATION OF MANY CROPS – FOR EXAMPLE, THE EXISTING WINE-GROWING REGION WILL BECOME TOO HOT FOR GRAPES.
The cotten is important as long as everyone can afford it. Than it becomes a social class issue. Than the water could be put to better
use. Or get a big Military Plane to lift parts of an big ice berg. The
size of the one in the “Titani Movie” and drop little pieces in the fields.
Since the icebergs cannot come to us we can go to them. As for the wine crops . My opinion is use the grapes for juice boxes,frozen popsicicles.The precious water is going to waste on alcohol.Death sentence especially for “High School Grads” to much sufferance.
The Super Nova did not make the alcohol. Later