...California has been widely known across the globe for its great agriculture. As its main source for economic growth, California prides itself on its ability to produce mass amounts of crops in order to serve our nation. The backbone of everything that goes on in California is built around the Californian farmers’ ability to produce crops. As of late, the task of producing crops has become more difficult than ever for farmers to accomplish. Farming, and producing crops, has become increasingly difficult for farmers in California due to the scarcity of water. With little access to fresh water for their crops, farmers in California are having a hard time maintaining their fruits, vegetables, livestock, and nuts. Water has been hard to come by...
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...In discussion of the crisis of the drought, one controversial issue has been the conflict between water reductions. On the one hand, Justin Sullivan argues that this drought has been a difficult burden since people will argue about who cuts more of their water usage. He states, “People will say, ‘What about the farmers?’ Farmers will say, ‘What about the people who water their lawns”. As we all know outdoor use of water wastes much more water that is not even necessary. Some examples include: watering lawns, washing cars, watering gardens, and cemeteries over watering their grass. Sullivan argued that Mr. Brown stated that California would enforce these water restrictions and have a 25 percent cut in water consumption. People should value the importance of water and it should not be wasted on the contrary, it should be used in only the most necessary things. On the other hand, Damon Winter contends that the 25 percent of water reduction does not apply to farms and they are the ones who consume a great amount of the state’s water. Others like for example Mark Hertsgaard, maintain that the water is priced more cheaply than it should be; therefore, it encourages over consumption which leads people to waste water. My own view of this drought is if we the people don’t make changes and save water the drought will eventually worsen since their won’t be any people cooperating and trying to make a difference. When it comes to the topic of who has the right of using most of the state’s...
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...more tornados, typhoons and hurricanes over the past few years. And the most predominant effect, Increased Drought and Famine, where although much of the impact from climate change and its effects on water is related to the increase in storms and coastal flooding described above, one thing a lot of people don’t realize is that there is an associated change in the distribution of water on the planet overall. Some areas get too much water, but some aren’t getting enough , leading to the increase of drought and famine. Scientist’s studies shows that Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is released into the atmosphere when we burn fossil fuels, oil, coal and gas, which traps heat and acts like a blanket to warm the planet. The more gas we emit into the air, the more heat is trapped, which means the earth gets hotter and hotter. The importance of this is crucial because the hotter the world gets, the faster the world dries up and soon we will be in the worst drought ever. There are many things that needs to be done on a government level to help fix Global Warming like reduce the use of fossil fuels and its carbon dioxide emissions. To me, either idea is great, its just about are we willing to do it and keep it up. California’s drought is another effect situation that’s crucial, due to Global Warming. Heat from the trapped gases causes dryness of the world. Honestly, you can’t fix the drought situation,...
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...The San Joaquin river, one of the most famous and longest river in all of Central California. The river starts in Nevada and goes through a big agricultural farm, then all the way to the Pacific Ocean, San Francisco, and Suisun Bay. In the 20th century the river came to a major halt the people voted to have the delta built, which caused an uproar in the wildlife community.Since the river has been closed off from flowing, the waters just sitting there and all wildlife that took place there packed their things and moved to a new location. The article “ River To Fishy For My Taste Buds by Bill McEwen” of the Fresno Bee's newspaper company, whose credibility for the topic occurs as credible. McEwen despite the fact that he agrees in the river to...
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...Will the San Joaquin River Restoration Project persists of improving or deteriorating California’s drought? “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” explains how the project will not help at all, something fishy must remain a secret. Bill McEwen publishes this article in the Fresno Bee, located in Fresno, because he believes the project subsists unhelpful. Fresno transpires as one of the fastest growing population county, and they accustomed to obtaining high temperatures. McEwen, a journalist, acquired a position in The Fresno Bee for 35 years. in addition, he dedicated four decades of all his knowledge to his community. McEwen, 1972 Fresno High graduate, attended Fresno State and majored in Journalism. I believe the San Joaquin River Restoration...
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...Will the San Joaquin River Restoration Project persists of improving or deteriorating California’s drought? “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” explains how the project will not help at all, something fishy must remain a secret. Bill McEwen publishes this article in The Fresno Bee, located in Fresno, because he believes the project subsists unhelpful. Fresno transpires as one of the fastest growing population county, and they accustomed to obtaining high temperatures. McEwen, a journalist, acquired a position in The Fresno Bee for 35 years. in addition, he dedicated four decades of all his knowledge to his community. McEwen, 1972 Fresno High graduate, attended Fresno State and majored in Journalism. I believe the San Joaquin River...
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...Western parts of North Dakota, and Texas, North Eastern regions of Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico, and major regions of South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, and Oklahoma. The causative factors for the development of the Dust Bowl were attributed to two main factors; drought and famine condition in existing in Central America and poor farming methods on the vast dry lands from the Canadian prairies in the South to the US, acreage of over 400,000 km2 (Langston-George, 2015). Based on Dust Bowl’s historical naure, it is imperative to understand the causes, characteristics, impact and draw future lessons to mitigate such occurrences in the human and physical environment. Characteristics of the Dust Bowl The Dust bowl region lies on the west side of the 100th meridian. The elevation of the plains was estimated to be 760m on the east side and 1800m to the west. The erosion and drought affected a geographical coverage of about 100,000,000acres. The climatic condition of the area is hot and dry as it receives approximately 510mm of rainfall in an annual span. These make it vulnerable to extensive drought periods that alternate with an equivalent length of unusual wetness. In this case, the region is prone to survivor drought and floods. The wet seasons are good for agriculture but crops tend to fail in the dry seasons. The region experiences...
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...Jessy Lopez May 12, 2014 The Golden Poppy The California poppy (Eschscholzia Californica) is a beautiful orange-golden flower well known in California not just by being common in our gardens but by being the state’s flower. Eschscholzia Californica is known by many names; La Amapola, the flame flower, and the golden puppy. In the past the golden puppy was valued by Native Americans for its oils, food source, and medical use. Even today it is a great importance in medicine by relieving stress and a great remedy to calm insomnia. The Eschscholzia Californica belongs in the kingdom Plantae, it is in the order Ranunculales, family Papaveraceae, genus Eschscholzia, and species Californica. It has a perigynous anatomy of the ovary and the sepals cover the bud except when it flowers. It has 2 functional carpels with 2 rudimentary ones, 4 stamens, 2 fused sepals located above the receptacle surrounding the bud, and has alternating branching blue-green foliage leaves. It does reproduction by seed dispersion. It has C3 photosynthesis meaning that it requires optimally 12 hours of sunlight to grow properly. The golden poppy is a plant that is: herbaceous, a basal dicot, drought tolerating, annual that grows from 5-60 inches tall, has intermediate flowering, and closes its petals at night and at cloudy nights. Its flowers are actinomorphic and exhibit radial symmetry (California Academy, 2007). The golden poppy is related to buttercups and mustard families. It is different from...
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...recovery, yet changing ever so slightly. It really is nothing more than a question mark when referring to the prediction of where the economy is going in the future and economist continues to try to make that accurate prediction hoping for the best. Key areas within the economy to keep a watch out for are things such as the affects of foreign imports on produce in Kudler stores, and the expansion of Kudler stores in today’s economy. Kudler Fine Foods is aware of the dependence of produce across different parts of the world and understand there are certain factors they cannot control; one of them is the weather. Kudler has the reputation of having nothing but the best when it comes to top quality organic foods, and is cognizant of the importance weather plays in the availability and pricing of produce Kudler carries in all of its stores. A country that has the optimal weather conditions for growing a wide range of produce is Mexico. Mexico is one of Kudler’s largest imports of produce items supplying products such as avocados, onions, lemons and limes and sunflower seeds. Mexico also comes in the top five with providing a wide selection of fruits, papaya, chilies and peppers, oranges, mangoes and chicken. Other items such as coffee come from an array of countries like Brazil, Vietnam, Columbia, Indonesia, and Mexico; which is just a few that top the list. When it comes to cheese, America produces 30% of the world’s cheese while Germany, Italy, and France are among the other...
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...Born on February 27, 1902, in Salinas, California, John Steinbeck never finished college and instead as his intended profession he worked as a manual laborer before achieving success as a writer. His novel published in 1939,The Grapes of Wrath, about the migration of a family from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California, won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award. Steinbeck served as a war correspondent during World War II, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962. He died in New York City in 1968 (Biography.com editors. "John Steinbeck Biographies." the biography.comwebsites, A&E Television Networks, 2016, biography.com. Accessed 13 Nov....
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...For someone to be as determined to serve other people and make their working conditions better, they have to experience it for themselves. That is the exact case with Chavez, when he was little he worked at a ranch and also in the fields. During the Great Depression Chavez’s family faced a tough situation, they had very few paying customers, but they had land where they could produce enough food for the family. In 1933 there was a severe drought that caused the crops to dry out, after four years of drought and failed crops the government confiscated the land due to nonpayment of taxes. The Chavez family then became migrant workers, moving to California working in different fields depending on where the work was. Many of the contractors tried taking advantage of the family and even other families by underpaying them or even not paying them at all. Chavez’s parents never put up with it they always fought for what...
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...impacted the world and scientist have agreed that it is the cause of climate change. I was aware of climate change and I’ve witness many natural disasters over the years due to news broadcastings; such as hurricane Katrina, Washington’s mudslide and most recently Arkansas deadly tornado. However, I never truly grasp the importance of the earth’s current situation until I furthered my research in college. According to the ShowTime docu-series “Years of living dangerously” climate change is inevitable due to the amount of earth’s resources used verses those that are replenished. The documentary opened my eyes to the high tempatures that are spreading across the country and one of the biggest causes of climate change, which are green house gases. The tragic causes of these gases develop from the burning of fossil fuels, cars and deforestation, which creates climate change worldwide. In fact, conservative projections by the worlds leading scientist have identified that 20% of all emissions come from deforestization each year. In turn the release of these gases rapidly increased the effects. Among many of the major consequences related to climate change are droughts. For example, I was shocked to discover how...
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...PARTONE California Beginnings a: rdinra n.lans a'lfrtn Hntu.ia! rn.lergu.rd at rhe SPrn sh Pres;dio nsan Fran'G'o,1816 (cirdastoii'c sa.i?ry,Irrlltoa Oo.t{ anle.iian. FN 2s092 ) rowrh afd d!e61ry have been at ihe heari ofCalfornia since ils earliest beginiings. Throlgh eons ofgeologc tlme, rhe and irse fgre$' as disparate slrt of mlgot ng re.oln .ttach ng drehselves.o the continenr s western edge encomPassed a,v rhe rime ofhuman sen emenr, ihe Pres€nt bo!ndaries ofca ifomia Thelandwas'eeming fior:hAmerlca'sgreatestvareryollandformsandc matezones rlL; a vas. atra), offlora and tauna. Like$,lse, $e irst peop e ro lnhabit Calloinia were nolh ng lf not di!'erse Few p aces in the rvorld supporred a grearervariery ofcuLrures N.rveCaliforlansspoke dozens oflanguagesr thev rhriv€d and flo!rished in each olthe s.are's varied ecolog ;r r;ches. srccesslully adapring to and inevirablv.ransformlng their surro!ndings one of rhe mosr derse v poprlated -.--:g belore European conracr, caiiforn a was -:-:..s lf North Amerlca. I.e arrn al of E!ropean emP;re-builders in the late 1700s added ro $e d tr'ers rv of :: 'c-nia. Spaniards began the Process of.olonizarion, intenr on conrrolllng and :,:-;iorming the native peoPle. Efforrs at e.l'orced accultuiarion mosr especia lv in . : spanish mlsslons led ro billerconfliclsand leftar enduringlegacv Thespanish jr:r< ng ser.ler, themse ves were a di'e6e lot, in.lud;ng PeoPle offlixed E!rop-ean' :: an.lnd Afrlcan an.esry. Wi$ the achlevement of Mexlcaf...
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...Adapting to drought in the Sahel: lessons for climate change Michael Mortimore∗ The Sahel’s experience of adapting to changes in rainfall on a scale at least comparable to that of climate change scenarios, between the 1960s and the 1990s, suggests that lessons can be learnt that may have a wider utility for policy in the future. The Sahel is a major global agroecological region and its success in adaptation will influence the achievement of the global Millennium Development Goals. From simple typologies of adaptation strategies, our understanding of adaptive capacity has evolved over time (with accumulating observations) into a contextual model which places drought management at the center of a development process. Climate change impacts in future are very uncertain. Policies and interventions should therefore aim to build on the platform of past achievements and existing local knowledge to enable flexibility and diversity and the protection of assets of small-scale farmers and herders . 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. WIREs Clim Change 2010 1 134–143 ‘Africa is the most vulnerable region to climate change, due to the extreme poverty of many Africans, frequent natural disasters such as droughts and floods, and agricultural systems heavily dependent on rainfall’.1 ‘the continent’s low adaptive capacity serves as a major constraint to her ability to adapt’ (Ref 2. p. 6). ‘It is uncertain how rainfall in the Sahel, the Guinean coast and the southern Sahara will evolve in this century’...
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...a plantation, or he could choose to preserve his land by taking care of the trees. All of these causes have massive impacts upon the forests and the earth. Deforestation is very detrimental not only to the land but to animals, plants, and the climate. Carbon dioxide is what plants feed off of. When trees are cut down carbon dioxide has nowhere to go except into the atmosphere. This CO2 greatly contributes to the warming of the planet. The amount of CO2 released by cut down trees accounts for ten to fifteen percent of the greenhouse gas emissions. This is also how much CO2 is emitted by cars. As the CO2 emissions increase so does the temperature of the Earth. This can lead to the start of massive droughts and forests fires. The effects are already evident in California as large droughts and fires rage throughout the state. But CO2 related problems are not the only worries that deforestation is causing. Oxygen becomes less and less abundant as its producers, trees and plants, are removed. This is a very threatening problem because without oxygen, humans and most animals will suffocate and die. Deforestation also causes habitat fragmentation and destruction too.This continued loss of habitat will eventually lead to the extinction of many species of plants and animals. The Amazon Rainforest is a huge concern when talking about deforestation as it is between a third to a half of the world’s remaining rainforests. Due to deforestation it is currently losing .3 percent of its forests...
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