A Kingdom from Dust (2018)

>In the Wonderful fields, he tells me, at least 80 percent of the workers carry no documents or documents that are not real. U.S. immigration has little say-so here. Rather, it is the authority vested in Wonderful that counts.

Interesting to consider in this context how illegal immigration has facilitated a continuing and escalating cost to society by subsidizing labor and environmental externalities for inefficient (and ultimately ill-fated) industries.

Re: A Kingdom from Dust (2018)

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Post by hourislate » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 9:26 PM UTC

California is a special place. No where else in the USA/Canada do you have such a wonderful climate where you can have so many growing seasons (6?). It is the Bread Basket of NA.

It would be worth helping find a solution to provide this area of the country with water.

Re: A Kingdom from Dust (2018)

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Post by aliswe » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 9:26 PM UTC

I dunno, I just cringe nowadays reading stuff this leftist-activist. But I was also disappointed because I thought it was an article telling a success story. That's the thing I appreciate the most on HN, except purely technically interesting stuff.

Re: A Kingdom from Dust (2018)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 9:27 PM UTC

adamiscool8 wrote: post #4

>In the Wonderful fields, he tells me, at least 80 percent of the workers carry no documents or documents that are not real. U.S. immigration has little say-so here. Rather, it is the authority vested in Wonderful that counts. Interesting to consider in this context how illegal immigration has facilitated a continuing and escalating cost to society by subsidizing labor and environmental externalities for inefficient…

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Re: A Kingdom from Dust (2018)

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Post by AngryData » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 9:28 PM UTC

It is all fun and games until the last drop of water gets sucked up. Then they will (already are in some cases) bitch and complain that other states don't pipeline then hundreds of millions of gallons of water while disparaging those same states for not following the same short-sighted and unsustainable practices.

Re: A Kingdom from Dust (2018)

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Post by [deleted] » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 9:30 PM UTC

adamiscool8 wrote: post #4

>In the Wonderful fields, he tells me, at least 80 percent of the workers carry no documents or documents that are not real. U.S. immigration has little say-so here. Rather, it is the authority vested in Wonderful that counts. Interesting to consider in this context how illegal immigration has facilitated a continuing and escalating cost to society by subsidizing labor and environmental externalities for inefficient…

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Re: A Kingdom from Dust (2018)

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Post by pard68 » Sun, Feb 03, 2019, 9:32 PM UTC

The bit about water one day being more valuable than land seems to be half truth and half someone who has never lived on the otger side of the US where we have too much water.

Farmers in south central VA work to keep their land dry because it rains here everyday and we average about 4" a month.