LOS ANGELES residents have been asked to "shorten showers" and to otherwise save precious water. It takes a drought, the driest on record, to get some attention for nature's needs. Stop "throwing trash in toilets" we are told.
It is a little late for this message. Los Angeles has spread from San Diego to Santa Barbara and above; From Long Beach to Mount Baldy, Los Angeles has spread. In the 80's environmentalist called this megalopolis a "cancer." Drive from Los Angeles to San Bernardino, from Los Angeles to Ventura and the residential concrete sprawl will follow you. In the words of an environmentalist friend, "It doesn't matter where you go, Los Angeles will come and get you." He was right then (25 years ago), and he is right now.
What really hurts my environmentalist sentiments is that the growth reflects giant homes big enough to house a rifle platoon, each with its own dark, green, lush lawn. Beautifully manicured lawns cut by illegal immigrants on a weekly basis, and each lawn with its own set of automatic sprinklers, some working better than others, all wasting precious water, litter Southern California.
This "drought" is not new. It is part of living in Southern California. It happens that we have another additive, Global Warming, which may or may not have some affect here. What is new is the human environmental load on a finite area of semi-arid landscape.
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