The passenger pigeon is a blight on humanity. Bring back a bird worth having, like the Carolina parakeet.

Please think about the word "exponentially". It does not mean "lots and lots".

Currently, death rate for driving is just a bit over one per one hundred million miles. Slightly more people die per year from suicide, slightly fewer from accidental poisoning. Transportation in the US just doesn't qualify as "horribly unsafe".

If you're walking in the middle of a lane of the Connecticut Turnpike or other similar major Interstate, you deserve to be road pizza. Under the law, both the pedestrian and the driver are at fault.

If the government developed and manufactured drugs, what criteria would determine which diseases are targeted for cures? It would be those diseases with the largest and most obnoxious lobbying groups. The incompetent government labs would be toiling away for cures to AIDS, breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and maybe bowel cancer for Barney Frank. MS, heart disease, ebola? Not a chance.

They'd need a new name: Ministry of Truth.

Being on the windward side of several mountain ranges doesn't seem to be helping California.

Take a look and think about this: http://xkcd.com/1338/

The conspiracy is not "to reduce fossil fuel consumption", it's to gain political power. It's not a hidden conspiracy, mostly it's quite open in its actions; it's the motives that are somewhat hidden because few people lusting after political power have any need to communicate that lust.

And they haven't successfully hidden all evidence: East Anglia.

The central valley of California has good soil, warmth, and dependable sunshine. All that's missing for great agriculture is dependable water. The mid-west, America's breadbasket, suffers fairly cold winters and occasional severe floods.

People make do with what they have and operate in whatever economic conditions prevail. If water becomes too rare and hence too expensive, California farms will fail. Food prices will go up for everyone, and some California farmers will be impoverished. If water does not become too expensive, almost everyone wins.

Anything can be.

Based on that statement and the unquestionable moral and scientific authority of Shel Silverstein, I've ordered a gross of square circles. The supplier claims to have found a way to make PI equal seven.

mostly old ass (white) people

Translation: Experienced members of the most successful and technologically advanced people on earth. People who, except for their failure in raising the current generation, generally did things correctly.

Probably a couple dozen, evenly split between nuclear holocaust and enviro-catastophes, and that's just limiting it to those whose due dates are already past. Nothing interesting happened. (Calling them scientific is a bit of a stretch, however.)
There are plenty of religious ones, too.

Still doesn't make sense.

New York Sewer^H^H^H^H^H City is a very expensive place to live, still, assuming that the employer pays for Obamacare, $27k should be enough to live on. The biggest expense is rent: get a roommate.