Mass migration away from California may begin due to extreme drought
by: J. D. Heyes
NaturalNews.com
Thursday, August 14, 2014
Desperate times call for desperate measures, as the saying goes, and for sure, California is undergoing some pretty desperate times as a historic drought both spreads and worsens across the state, causing some to consider moving perhaps millions of Californians out of the hardest hit areas.
As reported by CNBC, the state is suffering through its third year of drought. More than 58 percent of the state is currently in the condition of “exceptional drought,” according to the U.S. government’s latest “Drought Monitor” map.
That is a massive amount of drought-affected land; just a week earlier, only 36 percent of the state was listed that way — still a large area, but growing larger very quickly. As further reported by CNBC:
Exceptional drought, the most extreme category, indicates widespread crop and pasture losses and shortages of water in reservoirs, streams and wells.
If the state continues on this path, there may have to be thoughts about moving people out, said Lynn Wilson, academic chair at Kaplan University and who serves on the climate change delegation in the United Nations.
Migration ‘can’t be taken off the table’
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