The Scorching Sun 's Immortal Impact On Sustainability

The first chapter of the book is an introduction to the economy, politics and people of California. It encompasses the economy, politics and demography of the state for the past, present and the future. The edition features updated demographic information of the state from the census that took place in 2010. The chapter explains the state’s transition from colonization to rebellion and statehood. It discusses California’s past, including the great depression, political turmoil, infrastructure, workingmen’s party and World War II. The growth, reform and progressive change of the state to what it is today is also highlighted in the book. California previously faced budget deficits

This desolate outlook on Southern California’s future is a result of excessive water usage and rapidly diminishing water supplies.

So what are possible options for California? Preparing for a future requires not just conservation, drip-irrigation farming or desalination; it’s all of the above.

For the past 5 years and so, California residents had suffer from increased fires, dry seasons, extreme weather cases, lots of years of very low income and rent cost gong

There have been droughts severe droughts around the world infact you have an example. “Australia has just come through a thirteen-year duration of drought it was catastrophic in that country. The way that they delt with it was, believe it or not, was concerving water and rain water harvesting. It wasn’t all the high teck stuff and yet we here in California need a desalinization plant. I mean it does help. But the main strength in what they accomplished in that country of ausralia was the fact that the worked together they reduced their water reduction through concervation practices and they put up tank systems on their properties to collect rain water from their gutters. That’s how they did it.”

While many blame current droughts on climate change, rainfall patterns in areas like California—currently in its fourth consecutive year of drought—have actually varied little from a century ago. But if little is done to curb carbon emissions, what is to come may be far worse. In fact, economic losses associated with climate change, globally, will reach an estimated $3 billion by the end of 2015. Furthermore, these human-induced droughts will uproot entire communities and force them to migrate to regions with more water and food. With climate change set to worsen over the course of this century, food and water shortages will only get worse, and not just for Californians.

Moreover, this issue connects with human geography through issues in contemporary commercial agriculture. During a drought many crops die due to the lack of water. Thus, many farms suffer to make income because they do not have crops to sell.

California residents are beginning to feel the effects of the worst drought ever recorded in history. Wells are drying up, unexpected fires, and decreasing groundwater water levels are leaving Californians desperate in creating and putting in motion new water rationing projects for the whole state. The cause for the drought is just “Man made,” Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard executive stated . More and more lawns statewide are being ripped apart and replaced by fake grass to cut down water usage forcibly from the residents. Lakes that used to be overflowing with rich water are now nothing but a puddle of water waiting to dry up. This tragic drought will come to affect everyone, as California is one of the biggest nation’s producers of

What Charles Iceland shows is that the impacts of these droughts are profound, especially for the poor, and that many of the nations, like California, do not have proper management practices to allow for sustainable use and this lack of management puts the citizens of these nations at continued risk. Further examples are seen across the globe, and a common theme is that agricultural communities are hit hardest, and that the droughts are causing other issues, such as having an influence on military conflicts, amplifying malnourishment, and causing the increased spread of diseases (Mosbergen, 2017; “Hundreds Dying From Hunger as Severe Drought Grips Somalia” 2017; “State of Emergency in Bolivia Amid Worst Drought in 25 Years”, 2016). It is clearly evidenced from these examples, including California, that a local drought does not only impact the nation in which it occurs, as the global nature of trade allows the influences of a drought to be widespread (Koba,

To begin “Decade of Drought” explains how some people all over the world don’t have safe drinking water. For example, Africa’s drought killed many people. “Widespread crop failure caused a famine that killed between 50,000 and 250,000 people”(95). Additional, the article continues to explains how droughts affect the world and shows it with pictures. For example, the picture show how spain's

For many months now, most of California has been suffering through a drought. Policy makers and residents of California have been strategizing for a plan to stop the drought. The biggest lesson that Californians can learn from this is by looking into the past, specifically in Australia, where The Millennium Drought occurred from 1997 to 2009. During the Millennium Drought in Australia, the economy and the environment were hit the hardest. While small and large scale farmers were only affected in a limited fashion, it was mid-sized farming operations that were most impacted. Regardless of the struggles of the drought, Australia used a series of strategies that helped them to reform water usage and help the country recover as a whole. Some of

Sahel was faced with drought conditions through 1910s, 1940, 1960, 1970s and the most recent one being in 2012. To understand the focus area’s and activities around measures taken to cope with repeated drought situation we will be looking closely at the development plan of South Sudan which gained its freedom from Sudan only in 2011. (S. Maskey, 2014)

Water Scarcity: Water is essential to the growth of crops, lack of water would drastically lower the amount of agricultural yields. Lake Chad, pictured on the side, is on the border of four countries and is a huge water source. However, over the past 40 years, this lake has been shrunk to 1/20 of its size. Due to Chad being a land-locked country, it is dependent on this lake for water. The disappearance of Lake Chad has decreased food production as many crops are suffering from dehydration. The inevitable future can be predicted, if the drought and overconsumption of water continues to occur, Lake Chad will soon completely disappear leaving four countries high and dry. Technology and

From there the people, land, and globally worldwide view of what can be done to stop the negative results of the drought:With so little resources East Africa uses what they have chicken blood is used as a treatment to a malnourished person (Stewart, 2011). Immunizations

We would like to begin by thanking the United Nations for giving us this opportunity to speak. Joining me today are Julia Antony, Ian Rose, and Ryan Amer. We are here to discuss the large topic of famine and drought. Drought is defined as, “A long period of time during which there is very little or no rain”(First picture). These two problems alone are some of the largest overarching issues that our world is facing right now and have been for centuries. At this stage, no one can ignore the fact that 110 people have died in the last 48 hours at the hand of famine and drought. (Second picture) Not to mention that in Somalia, more than 900,000 children are malnourished; that alone is more than the entire population of children in Connecticut. Now over to you, Julia. *transition to next slide.