Your Food Supply Began To Be Destroyed in the 1960s—Water "Scarcity" in California Was Deliberate

The ongoing devastation of the most productive agricultural land, for fruits and vegetables, in the United States, is the result of a 40-year process of devolution, caused by the British Malthusian insistence that it is "nature," not man, that will determine the fate of the universe, and that, in the face of scarce resources, people should die.

Take the situation today in the Central Valley, around Fresno and Bakersfield. Federal waters for agriculture have been totally cut off, for the sake of the Eco-Nazi insistence of saving the fish; unemployment is between 14 and 40%, and dust bowl conditions are growing. Planting such vegetables as lettuce and other crops is being delayed—if they will be planted at all. Large tracts of nuts, avocados, and other trees are being triaged.

No one saw it coming? In fact, the LaRouche Movement's files show that practically the same conditions prevailed in the early 1990s, when there were also five years of drought, and environmentalist crazies insisted upon water cuts in order to provide water for the salmon. In addition, the state authorities cut all water to agriculture, preferring to send the limited supply to the cities. In December 1991, there were actually dust storms (Great Depression style) on the main highway in the Central Valley.

But the die was actually cast even earlier than that. During the 1950s, water supply expansion plans had been devised by California hydrologists to make full use of state resources in the "California Water Plan," and for continental-scale water supply expansion with what became the North American Water and Power Alliance. California-based Parsons Engineering prepared a full work-up of NAWAPA. But by the 1960s, the environmentalist, anti-infrastructure cabal had moved in.

Favorable hearings were held in Congress on NAWAPA in 1966, but soon afterward, Congress passed legislation restricting "inter-basin water transfer," under the influence of British agent Sen. Scoop Jackson (D-WA), and the prospects were never revived. On the state level, the last major aspect of the California Water Plan, which was adopted in 1957, was completed in 1976, the California Aqueduct. But the plans to make full use of the state's northern run-off were never completed.

The flurry of activity currently visible on the California crisis will produce nothing, if this long-term causality is not faced, and remedied by a future-oriented perspective. With the implementation of bankruptcy reorganization and re-establishment of a constitutional credit system, one of the first major projects should be NAWAPA.

For more on the NAWAPA, LaRouchePAC produced an excellent feature documentary, NAWAPA-PLHINO: The Future of the Americas.