‘Get a clue, CA wine industry’
I’ll be the first to admit I’m a HUGE wine fan and consume it regularly [‘Coho vs. pinot,’ Sept 9]. I’ve also from time to time made my living from the wine industry. However, wine is not more important than water. And wine is not more important than the environment.
The wine industry either needs to embrace being regulated, or it needs to be even more aggressive with reducing consumption of both water and pesticides than government regulations would require. Frankly, California should follow the example set by places like Tuscany, where dry-farming is required by law.
JFDI California! Some of these wine industrialists sound exactly like GOP climate denier nut jobs, arguing that there isn’t good enough evidence that severely drawing down the watershed impacts nature adversely. Seriously, get a clue CA wine industry, you’re just hurting yourselves by doing things like being in denial, and that is a river that flows through California.
—Alejandro Moreno S., via pacificsun.com
