Is this a particular style of writing ? He takes 3 sentences, makes 1 paragraph. Then repeats with the next 3, and the next 3 etc. The paragraphs are completely disjoint - so he mentions almonds in a para, then Romney in another, then Glenn Beck, then something about Yosemite....its like a whirlwind tour of the drought landscape with no central thesis or conclusion. No flow, just lots of disparate facts. What is his point ? How exactly does one go from one freak drought to the end of California, which has what - the fourth or fifth largest GDP on the whole planet ( if it were a country ) ?
I agree. He's strung together a bunch of anecdotes and currently-voguish facts, without doing his homework and calling our attention to the most important effects. He has no real POV about how this plays out, he just seesaws between optimism about creative solutions and worry.
I'm a NYT subscriber, so I'm pre-disposed to their viewpoints and style, but this column is really junky.
I wonder if articles are being written so as not to scare off hyperlinked visitors. People are perhaps turned off by large paragraphs and want to be able to zoom in on some keywords which can be skimmed around.
Interesting, thanks, but those are 2013 numbers. The article claims California grew/is growing faster than Texas which isn't the case in your linked report, so I wonder where one might find more recent data.
