The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly
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Re: The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly
#2Well, those photos of Lake Mead are terrifying. Maybe severe water shortages this summer will wake people up that climate change isn't some liberal fetish.
Re: The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly
#3Will there ever truly be water wars?
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#4Will there ever truly be water wars?
There are conflicts over water. But I think we will see more development of desalination tech as water becomes scarce and people will pay more for water
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#5Will there ever truly be water wars?
Watch the interaction between Egypt and Ethiopia.
Re: The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly
#6Yet Maricopa County, Arizona (Phoenix) had more growth from 2010 to 2019 than any other county in the U.S.[0] Clark County, Nevada (Las Vegas) wasn't far behind.
[0]https://www.census.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2020/pop-esti...
Re: The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly
#7Will there ever truly be water wars?
There are conflicts over water. But I think we will see more development of desalination tech as water becomes scarce and people will pay more for water
The real trouble is for agriculture. Even with the current droughts, residential water won't really notice.
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#8Well, those photos of Lake Mead are terrifying. Maybe severe water shortages this summer will wake people up that climate change isn't some liberal fetish.
> climate change isn't some liberal fetish
It's not and I'm pretty sure most people agree. But the activists are focusing their efforts in all the wrong places. We have Extinction Rebellion extremists gluing themselves to electric trains in London. Electric. In the mean while, the likes of China and India are by far the biggest culprits while Africa is projected to quadruple it's population while rapidly industrializing. The growing number of people is the main problem.
The world is heading for the climate catastrophe and getting Americans to swap their trucks for Teslas is not going to change anything.
Re: The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly
#9Well, those photos of Lake Mead are terrifying. Maybe severe water shortages this summer will wake people up that climate change isn't some liberal fetish.
I'm not sure the level of population in these areas would ever be sustainable, climate change or not.
Re: The American West is drying out. Things will get ugly
#10Well, those photos of Lake Mead are terrifying. Maybe severe water shortages this summer will wake people up that climate change isn't some liberal fetish.
> climate change isn't some liberal fetish It's not and I'm pretty sure most people agree. But the activists are focusing their efforts in all the wrong places. We have Extinction Rebellion extremists gluing themselves to electric trains in London. Electric. In the mean while, the likes of China and India are by far the biggest culprits while Africa is projected to quadruple it's population while rapidly industrializ…
Population growth in Africa has approximately nothing to do with the problems facing the American West. The problem in America is due to ridiculous property- and ag-developer-friendly water policies that resulted in “water credits” being tossed around like candy and a ridiculous belief that places like Palm Springs are built on “prehistoric aquifers” that will “last centuries.”
Suburbanization is still in vogue in those parts.
The problems have only begun.