Harvard’s bet has proven prescient. The $39 billion fund, among America’s biggest endowments, now values its vineyards at $305 million, up nearly threefold from in 2013, while its overall natural-resources investments have done poorly. The wager has also earned backlash from some farmers and other locals who fear Harvard eventually will use up groundwater and unduly influence water-use regulations. “Should they be controlling our groundwater plans?” says Debbie Arnold, a San Luis Obispo County supervisor. “I don’t think so.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/harvar...-vineyardsand-the-water-underneath-1544456396
That's the plan...use up all the groundwater so the rest of CA turns to a dustbowl and then yell "See! Climate change!! We told you! Now give us $1 trillion to fight it."