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I have more respect for that than I do for, say, Phoenix AZ. It's quite the stunt to make a habitable vacation spot in the hottest place on Earth. There's only
by samatman 5y ago
I have more respect for that than I do for, say, Phoenix AZ.
It's quite the stunt to make a habitable vacation spot in the hottest place on Earth. There's only one Death Valley, and people want to see it. The golf course is... kinda pushing it, yeah, but I have respect for the sheer human ingenuity it takes to do something like that.
Phoenix is more of a case of putting a bunch of people where a bunch of people probably shouldn't be. It can probably be made energy-independent, there is a lot of sun to be harvested, but water is a different story.
tl;dr scale matters.
- Pokepokalypse 5y agoto be fair; Phoenix has (had) quite a bit of its own water via the Salt River. And there was also quite a lot of ground water (which is nearing depletion now). The controversial bit is that Phoenix also ties in to the Colorado River system, via canals, and THAT is consuming far more water than can be sustained. Most of it for growing crops (not sustaining the massive population) - and I think that if the current drought situation continues, they're going to have to stop growing cotton and lettuce out here. Which . . . is fine.