“It’s California, Jake.” Power, Water, & the Golden State

Friday, February 25th, 12PM-1:30PM PST

A virtual panel hosted by the California Center for Ethics & Policy

On October 19th, 2021, Governor Newsom declared a statewide drought emergency. However, water politics in the Golden State have been fraught for centuries, from the privatization of public lands and the influence of agribusiness to the infamous conspiracies depicted in the film Chinatown. 

This interdisciplinary virtual panel of climate experts examined California’s fragile relationship to water, and what the drought tells us about power and profit in the Golden State.

Panelists:

• Edgar Tellez Foster (Environmental Economics, UC-Riverside)

• Gregory Pierce (Co-Director, UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation; Director, Human Right to Water Solutions Lab)

• Sayd Randle (Political Ecology, Urban Water Innovation and Sustainability Hub at Texas A&M AgriLife’s Dallas Center)

The panel will be moderated by CCEP Faculty Fellow, Nicole Lambrou