{"id":1169381,"date":"2021-12-29T13:19:38","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T18:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169381"},"modified":"2021-12-29T13:19:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T18:19:41","slug":"victor-davis-hanson-on-how-environmental-regulations-killed-farming-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/victor-davis-hanson-on-how-environmental-regulations-killed-farming-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Victor Davis Hanson on How Environmental Regulations &#039;Killed&#039; Farming in California"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvictor-davis-hanson-on-how-environmental-regulations-killed-farming-in-california%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1169381&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Ostensibly environmental regulations restricting water diversion and use have \u201ckilled\u201d farming in California, historian and professor Victor Davis Hanson, author of&nbsp;<em><a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dying-Citizen-Progressive-Globalization-Destroying\/dp\/154164753X?tag=breitbart035-20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America<\/a><\/em>, explained in an interview with Breitbart News Editor-in-Chief Alex Marlow.<\/p>\n<p>Marlow asked about California\u2019s stultified agricultural potential while speaking with Hanson at the latter\u2019s almond farm in Selma, CA. The golden state was \u201cthe farming&nbsp;<span>Mecca of the world,\u201d he said. \u201cEnvironmentalism regulation changed that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p><span>Hanson explained, \u201cThe big thing that killed us here is water. C<\/span><span>alifornia used to have 20 million people, say, in 1978, and they had a beautiful system called the California Water Project and the Central Valley Project \u2014 which was federal \u2014 and they had all of these dams,&nbsp; and water, and aqueducts.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The water table deepens about 40 feet per mile as one travels west from his farm, Hanson stated, driving up the costs of agricultural irrigation. Farming was only made financially viable with the California Water Project and Central Valley Project.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19297514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1234437930.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19297514\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1234437930-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>The dried and cracked soil in an irrigation ditch next to a corn field is seen on a farm in Fresno, California, July 24, 2021. (ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty)<\/em><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><span>\u201cFor the people west of where we are, the water table, every mile drops by about 40 feet from the Sierra [Nevada],\u201d Hanson remarked, noting that wells around his farm are about 80 feet deep.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He added, \u201cT<\/span><span>hat water for agriculture was diverted, and then the environmentalists came and said, \u2018Well, let\u2019s not just divert the water to the municipals \u2014 San Jose, Santa Barbara, L.A. \u2014 we want 19th century aboriginal streams and rivers \u2014 the Sacramento [and]&nbsp;<\/span><span>San Joaquin Rivers \u2014 so they started letting the water go out to the [Sacramento-San Joaquin River] Delta. S<\/span><span>o the biggest problem right now is this is not a sustainable area where we are.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19297546\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1234437785.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-19297546\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/GettyImages-1234437785-1024x681-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"658\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>A sign promotes the building of more dams to help provide more irrigation water for the Central Valley\u2019s drought-stricken farmers, near Corcoran, California, July 23, 2021. (ROBYN BECK\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>He warned, \u201cI<span>n my life time, if they don\u2019t change, you will not see farming five miles from here for the next 50 miles \u2014 about four million acres north and south \u2014&nbsp; it won\u2019t exist. It will not exist because the amount of money to go down 1,500 feet [is] a million dollars a well, and the electric bill to pump it up, and the water is brackish, and there\u2019s no surface water. They\u2019re not building anymore reservoirs, no more aqueducts, the water they do have is designed for a state of 20 million people, and that water is going to municipal areas. Environmentalists are letting the snow melt [go] to the ocean.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThat\u2019s by design,\u201d he concluded, \u201cand this area where we are will last because of the water table for eons [coming] from the nearby Sierra [Nevada]. So the snow melted, and we\u2019ve got a huge aquifer here.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><em>Watch Marlow\u2019s entire interview with Hanson&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/12\/28\/exclusive-victor-davis-hanson-elites-are-destroying-america-with-globalism-leftism-and-tribalism\/\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ostensibly environmental regulations restricting water diversion and use have \u201ckilled\u201d farming in California, historian and professor Victor Davis Hanson, author of\u00a0The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1169381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}