<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">“Ten thousand years ago there were between 1 and 5 million people on the planet. There was plenty of room to expand and move,<span style="background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> and resources seemed endless.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">Niles Eldredge. <i class="">Dominion</i>. 1995. University of California Press.</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">============================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="background-color: #ffff0a" class="">“It was not until the 1920's that a few people began to realize </span>the supplies of fossil fuels had distinct limits.”</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class="">John U. Nef. "An Early Energy Crisis and its Consequences,"<i class=""> </i></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><i class="">Scientific American,</i> November 1977</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">===========================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(16, 60, 192); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMihQFodHRwczovL3d3dy5jbmJjLmNvbS8yMDIxLzExLzE4L2JhdHRlcmllcy1hcmUtdGhlLW5ldy1vaWwtc2F5cy1tb3JnYW4tc3RhbmxleS1oZXJlLWFyZS1zdG9ja3MtZm9yLWV2ZXJ5LXBhcnQtb2YtdGhlLXN1cHBseS1jaGFpbi5odG1s0gEA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class=""><b class="">Batteries are the 'new oil' says Morgan Stanley — Here are stocks for every part of the supply chain</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; 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color: #18191b; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://theconversation.com/metals-and-minerals-will-be-the-next-finite-resource-shortfall-20170" class="">https://theconversation.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""> › metals-and-minerals-will-...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5d6267; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Nov 22, 2013 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Metals</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> and minerals will be the next </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">finite</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> resource shortfall ... </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25576543/renewable-limits-materials-dutch-ministry-infrastructure/" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25576543/renewable-limits-materials-dutch-ministry-infrastructure/" class=""><b class="">We Might Not Have Enough Materials for All the Solar Panels ...</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a25576543/renewable-limits-materials-dutch-ministry-infrastructure/" class="">https://www.popularmechanics.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""> › science › energy</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5d6267; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Dec 13, 2018 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">These can include magnetic neodymium, electronic indium, and silver, along with lesser-known </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">metals</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> like praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">===========================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline ; font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/search?author1=Steven+W.+Running&sortspec=date&submit=Submit" class=""><i class="">Steven W. Running</i></a></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><i class=""> Science </i>15 March 2013</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">DOI: 10.1126/science.1235886</span></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 20px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Book review - Approaching the Limits</b></span></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Harvesting the Biosphere</b> : <b class="">What We Have Taken from Nature </b>by Vaclav Smil MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2012. 315 pp. $29, £19.95. ISBN 9780262018562.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">Excerpts</b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Full of recent references and statistics, <i class="">Harvesting the Biosphere</i> adds to the growing chorus of warnings about the current trajectory of human activity on a finite planet, of which climate change is only one dimension. One can quibble with some assumptions or tweak Smil’s calculations, but the bottom line will not change, only the time it may take humanity to reach a crisis point.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“Unfortunately, the tragedy of the commons suggests that collective international</span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffff0a" class=""> actions to voluntarily reduce consumption are contrary to human nature."</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">============================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conspicuous-consumption.asp" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conspicuous-consumption.asp" class=""><b class="">Conspicuous Consumption Definition - Investopedia</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/conspicuous-consumption.asp" class="">https://www.investopedia.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""> › ... › Wealth</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5d6267; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Jan 21, 2021 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Conspicuous </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">consumption</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> is a means to show one's social </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">status</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">, especially when publicly displayed goods and services are too expensive for ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption" class=""></a></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption" class=""><b class="">Conspicuous consumption - Wikipedia</b></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 80, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #18191b; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspicuous_consumption" class="">https://en.wikipedia.org<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""> › wiki › Conspicuous_consump...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">To the conspicuous consumer, the public display of discretionary income is an economic means of either attaining or maintaining a given social </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""><b class="">status</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">============================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">“ … we are committed to a high level of consumption because, whether we need the goods or not, we very much need the employment their production provides.”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">John K. Galbraith. “How much should a country consume?”</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">In Jarrett, Henry (editor), Perspectives on Conservation. John Hopkins Press. 1958</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">============================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/11/art2full.pdf" class="">Consumer spending: an engine for U.S. job growth - Bureau of ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 80, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #18191b; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2002/11/art2full.pdf" class="">https://www.bls.gov<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""> › opub › mlr › 2002/11</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">PDF</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5d6267; background-color: #ffffff" class="">by M Toossi · 2002 · Cited by 30 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class="">spending was 83.2 million, accounting for 62 percent of total </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">employment</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> in the economy. </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Consumer spending</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> is projected to add 11.3 million net new </span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">jobs</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""> by ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">========================</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(11, 26, 41); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">An <i class="">Ambio </i>article by some heavyweights in climate science lays out the situation well enough. </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(11, 26, 41); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(11, 26, 41); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">A team including Will Steffen, Paul Crutzen, Veerabhadren Ramathan, Johan Rockstrom, Marten Scheffer and Hans Joachim Schellnhuber begin the abstract of their article by saying “Over the past century, the total material wealth of humanity has been enhanced …” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(11, 26, 41); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(150, 0, 30); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #0b1a29" class="">They end it by saying, “<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3357752" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #96001e" class="">we risk driving the Earth System onto a trajectory toward more hostile states from which we cannot easily return</span></a>.” </span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">============================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(11, 26, 41); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMiVmh0dHBzOi8vZ3Jpc3Qub3JnL2d1aWRlcy8yMDIxLWhvbGlkYXktbWFrZW92ZXIvaG93LXRvLXNhdmUtY2hyaXN0bWFzLWZyb20tY29uc3VtZXJpc20v0gEA?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">How to save Christmas from consumerism<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #18191b" class=""></span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class="">Grist</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(251, 2, 7);" class="">============================</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/people-under-40-experience-unprecedented-180424970.html" class="">People under 40 will experience 'unprecedented life' of ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(77, 80, 85);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #18191b; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/people-under-40-experience-unprecedented-180424970.html" class="">https://news.yahoo.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""> › people-under-40-experience-...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5d6267" class="">Sep 28, 2021 —<b class=""> </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class="">People </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""><b class="">under 40</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""> will experience 'unprecedented life' of </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""><b class="">climate change</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><b class=""> disasters, study says. </b></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 17px;" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(19, 0, 155); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none" class=""><a href="https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/study-majority-of-us-population-now-under-age-40-/5532061.html" class="">Majority of US Population Now Under Age 40 - VOA Learning ...</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(24, 25, 27);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><a href="https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/study-majority-of-us-population-now-under-age-40-/5532061.html" class="">https://learningenglish.voanews.com<span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055" class=""> › study-majority-o...</span></a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; color: rgb(60, 64, 68);" class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #5d6267; background-color: #ffffff" class="">Aug 13, 2020 — </span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">A new study shows that </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">Americans under</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class=""> the age of </b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; color: #4d5055; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class="">40</b></span><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class=""> now make up a majority of the U.S. population.</b></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-kerning: none; background-color: #ffffff" class=""><b class=""><br class=""></b></span></div><div class="">
<meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div dir="auto" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div>============</div><div><br class=""></div><div>D2 - Severe Drought<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Grazing land is inadequate<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fire season is longer, with high burn intensity, dry fuels, and large fire spatial extent<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Trees are stressed; plants increase reproductive mechanisms; wildlife diseases increase<br class=""></div><br class="">D3 - Extreme Drought<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Livestock need expensive supplemental feed; cattle and horses are sold; little pasture remains; fruit trees bud early; producers begin irrigating in the winter<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fire season lasts year-round; fires occur in typically wet parts of state; burn bans are implemented<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Water is inadequate for agriculture, wildlife, and urban needs; reservoirs are extremely low; hydropower is restricted<br class=""></div><br class=""><br class="">D4 - Exceptional Drought<br class=""><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fields are left fallow; orchards are removed; vegetable yields are low; honey harvest is small<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fire season is very costly; number of fires and area burned are extensive<br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>•<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Fish rescue and relocation begins; pine beetle infestation occurs; forest mortality is high; wetlands dry up; survival of native plants and animals is low; fewer wildflowers bloom; wildlife death is widespread; algae blooms appear<br class=""></div><br class="">Found at : <br class=""><a href="https://www.drought.gov/topics/snow-drought" class="">https://www.drought.gov/topics/snow-drought</a></div></div>
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