The Gen Z Water Dealmaker: Part 2
Imperfect Paradise
LAist Studios
4.5 • 535 Ratings
🗓️ 8 May 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
JB Hamby is the dealmaker from California, and at 28 years old, he’s the youngest and least experienced among the representatives from the seven states involved with the Colorado River water negotiations. LAist correspondent Emily Guerin explores the beginnings of Hamby’s understanding of water growing up in the Imperial Valley, a desert farming area in California.
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| 0:38.6 | Hidden Worlds and Messy Realities. Last time, on Imperfect Paradise, the Gen Z water deal maker. |
| 0:45.5 | We took you inside the drama of a high-stakes climate change negotiation on the Colorado River. |
| 0:51.7 | It's painful to live within the means of the river. |
| 0:56.0 | That's the future. |
| 0:57.0 | If there's no water, there's no order for everybody. |
| 0:59.0 | A messy compromise that will be judged harshly by history. |
| 1:05.0 | And we learned that the negotiations are coming down to a disagreement |
| 1:09.0 | between two groups led respectively by Colorado and California. |
| 1:14.2 | The one person that you cannot negotiate with is Mother Nature. She will win every time. |
| 1:22.1 | That is the wrong approach. |
| 1:29.5 | In this episode, how California's J.B. Hamby rose to become the youngest lead negotiator |
| 1:35.3 | ever on the Colorado River during the most consequential negotiations to date. |
| 1:40.4 | So here's a 22-year-old youngster talking about water law. |
| 1:45.7 | I mean, how unusual is that? |
| 1:48.6 | And how is a place where J.B. grew up, a desert farming area that uses more water than anywhere else on the river, |
| 1:54.9 | shaped him as a negotiator. |
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