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== THE WAR OF THE LARGE LOCAVORES: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FUTURE == | == THE WAR OF THE LARGE LOCAVORES: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FUTURE == | ||
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THE WAR OF THE LARGE LOCAVORES: A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN FUTURE
Three lines from Agence France Presse report of WestAmerica's paratroop raid on Minneapolis to get half the Midwest's corn crop. Quote: "a brilliant feat of arms.
It started small: another year of Kansas water shortages. It became huge: major rifts in the world's most powerful nations. It ended in disaster: a second, ongoing Civil War. Even now it is hard to believe that in 2065, the Appomattox bicentennial, the United States dissolved into four semi-permanently warring regions because of a dispute over how to pay for a drought.
The actual issue was an aged staple of water law: the difference between riparian rights and prior appropriation rights. Not one American in a thousand knew about it. Not even one lawyer in a hundred could write a coherent paragraph about it. Yet