Excellent read. Helped me understand better what's changed. I knew that water ways around the Bay Area had been massively transformed. But I had no mental picture for Tulare Lake and such.
One personal frustration that I have is the inevitable knee-jerk "cite needed" skeptical response whenever someone casually mentions one of these impactful historical facts. Ya, I get that we're all ignorant of our history. But ffs it's exhausting to always be challenged. Whereas actual disinformation is greedily consumed.
Increasingly, per Bartolini's Law, IRL I just keep my observations to myself. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
Thanks for the link. Sorry for the whining.
