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How Climate Change Will Hit Home  (New)

Date: October 31, 2011
Source: The Sacramento Bee
Limited Access Reprint

In this article about climate change and local water issues, UC Davis geology professor Jeffrey Mount tells the Sacramento Bee that Proposition 13, passed in 1978, "created a grow-or-die syndrome in California," encouraging new building developments on risky land, such as the Natomas basin. "That has had the effect of putting more people in harm's way," he says.

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