From University of California at Berkeley economist Michael Hanemann:
California and most of the West haven’t done a damn thing to put ourselves in a good position to handle drought. We have been unwilling to make the sort of changes ahead of time that we absolutely need [to make] to face a drier future.
National Geographic, October 2014
Little things like the western drought and Ebola might lead the cynical to question the widely held belief that government can and will take care of us. We can’t have that, now, can we?
