Drought for thee but none for me!
May 10, 2015 10:09:14 GMT -6
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Post by Deleted on May 10, 2015 10:09:14 GMT -6
It is true, in most cases, to say Nature is the 'Great Equalizer'. It doesn't care how smart you are, how dumb you are, how white or black you are or how educated or ignorant you are. Nature does what nature does with a rich person getting squashed by falling debris the same as a wicked witch in Oz.
There is one area this isn't 'quite' accurate for though.....drought. We aren't all quite equal in drought, although we should be. It isn't about money, frankly, but fame and celebrity worship by political leadership. After all....take the following examples and ask yourself. If this was some foreign, reclusive investor worth the same money as those in the story ...would he also get a free pass? If it were a real estate mogul trading in bottom land or something else with absolutely no prestige or 'power' involved ... would net worth alone make this okay? Hell no...and it isn't okay.
It is the way life is during the California drought though..
It must be nice to be bigger than life and held on a pedestal. This is a time when Governor Brown is threatening whole Water Districts fines upwards of $10,000 a *DAY* for failure to meet rather absurd percentage reductions up to 30%. However, recent figures had shown less than a 5% drop for the most recent period the numbers were available for.
Perhaps this is why, in one area anyway.
Hey! The grass really CAN be greener on the other side of the fence. At least when you're the 'commoner' and the fence is owned by a major celebrity. Indeed..their grass is much greener! Of course, not all of them are determined to be monuments of waste and vanity in a severe drought. A couple are half way decent. The article mentions that Julia Roberts is making efforts to bring her property inline with drought-time conditions while another went a few steps further!
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Meanwhile, I've heard nothing at all about reducing the rate of operation to the countless frack wells pumping millions of gallons down thousands of feet, as a routine course of action. California (of all places) has more than their fair share, and those wells take enough water to say it has a serious impact, IMO.
There is one area this isn't 'quite' accurate for though.....drought. We aren't all quite equal in drought, although we should be. It isn't about money, frankly, but fame and celebrity worship by political leadership. After all....take the following examples and ask yourself. If this was some foreign, reclusive investor worth the same money as those in the story ...would he also get a free pass? If it were a real estate mogul trading in bottom land or something else with absolutely no prestige or 'power' involved ... would net worth alone make this okay? Hell no...and it isn't okay.
It is the way life is during the California drought though..
As these aerial photos from The Post prove, Hollywood celebrities like Kim Kardashian, Barbra Streisand and Jennifer Lopez continue to suck up water to keep their gardens fresh and lawns green, while Southern California withers from a devastating drought.
It must be nice to be bigger than life and held on a pedestal. This is a time when Governor Brown is threatening whole Water Districts fines upwards of $10,000 a *DAY* for failure to meet rather absurd percentage reductions up to 30%. However, recent figures had shown less than a 5% drop for the most recent period the numbers were available for.
Perhaps this is why, in one area anyway.
“The Kardashian flowers and hedges are right in our face,” one resident told The Post. “It’s disgusting. You walk by and you can smell the freshness.”
The opulent garden of Jennifer Lopez is also drawing Bronx cheers, along with the water-mooching estate Jessica Simpson bought from Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne for $11.5 million two years ago.
The opulent garden of Jennifer Lopez is also drawing Bronx cheers, along with the water-mooching estate Jessica Simpson bought from Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne for $11.5 million two years ago.
Hey! The grass really CAN be greener on the other side of the fence. At least when you're the 'commoner' and the fence is owned by a major celebrity. Indeed..their grass is much greener! Of course, not all of them are determined to be monuments of waste and vanity in a severe drought. A couple are half way decent. The article mentions that Julia Roberts is making efforts to bring her property inline with drought-time conditions while another went a few steps further!
It takes 30 gallons of water to make one glass of wine, so “The Good Girl” actress Jennifer Aniston tore out the vanity vineyard of her newly purchased Bel-Air estate and replaced it with drought resistant plants and wood.
Meanwhile, I've heard nothing at all about reducing the rate of operation to the countless frack wells pumping millions of gallons down thousands of feet, as a routine course of action. California (of all places) has more than their fair share, and those wells take enough water to say it has a serious impact, IMO.