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What won't be inevitable is whether those disasters are worse than what would have happened otherwise. People are already running out of drinking water! Contemp
by Hondor 10y ago
What won't be inevitable is whether those disasters are worse than what would have happened otherwise. People are already running out of drinking water! Contemporary western morals put the environment first at all costs, even ahead of human life. That's only a position you can take after your humans already have a good quality of life. Developing countries still need to improve on nature to help their people.
Would you instead like to return the Colorado river to its original course where it dumped most of its water into the sea, leaving desert all around it? Never have built all the many canals around the world? Just crammed all people into the few naturally fertile areas and left the rest as a giant eco-tourism park for the wealthy?
- jessaustin 10y agoLike most people who know anything about the Colorado River, I do wish it were not depleted as it is now. I wish that wasteful subsidized alfalfa cultivation in Arizona would cease and therefore that dairy production would return to the Midwest where it sustainably belongs. I wish that the riverbed at the Gulf of California weren't dry every day of most years, and that native wildlife could recover. I wish that the cities of southern California and Arizona would try harder to live in a sustainable way. With respect to TFA, I wish India-first commentators would realize that this project threatens hundreds of millions of Indians and Bangladeshis, a number that dwarfs former populations of the North American southwest.
- erikpukinskis 10y agoNo one is saying we don't need to solve the water problem. The suggestion on the table is that there are better solutions than a nationwide diversion project.