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This just makes me shake my head. I'm not in the industry, but I'm guessing there's a least a bunch of things that could destroy the ecosystem out west by intro

This just makes me shake my head. I'm not in the industry, but I'm guessing there's a least a bunch of things that could destroy the ecosystem out west by introducing a different ph, foreign mineral content, or lack of natural bacterial content. So instead I have a bunch of better ideas that don't result in ecological disasters: * How about people stop living the desert? Somehow, unexpectedly, there's not a lot of water there. * How about we don't grow baby spinach 365 days a year? We can eat other things in the winter. * How about we reexamine the scientifically unsound pact around the Colorado river?

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_8j50 4y ago
I must disagree, people need space and while conservatism has its place people should live along side nature not outside of it. There is no reason to keep an arid and infertile land the way it is for the sake of novelty alone. How about we turn the deserts into habitable and fertile lands. People are suffering and climate change will only make water and food shortage worse and lack of resources always results in wars and famines. This is what people should be doing before colonizing mars. New fertile lands and sustainable cities built with the lessons of the past 200 years in mind. Instead of continuing to ruin and deplete existing resources, migrate to newer artificially formed areas to allow previously looted areas to recover. Homeless camps in the desert and drying lakes is all that needs to be considered. People will keep living in these areas and other areas will become and less and less habitable.
- exabrial 4y ago
  Infertile lands are not infertile. There are thousands of rare creatures that inhibit them.
  - _8j50 4y ago
    And millions more will inhabit them with water and trees. You can declare state and national parks to conserve desert environment. For example in Cali Joshua Tree national park is a great example.

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_8j50 4y ago

I must disagree, people need space and while conservatism has its place people should live along side nature not outside of it. There is no reason to keep an arid and infertile land the way it is for the sake of novelty alone. How about we turn the deserts into habitable and fertile lands. People are suffering and climate change will only make water and food shortage worse and lack of resources always results in wars and famines. This is what people should be doing before colonizing mars. New fertile lands and sustainable cities built with the lessons of the past 200 years in mind. Instead of continuing to ruin and deplete existing resources, migrate to newer artificially formed areas to allow previously looted areas to recover. Homeless camps in the desert and drying lakes is all that needs to be considered. People will keep living in these areas and other areas will become and less and less habitable.

exabrial 4y ago
Infertile lands are not infertile. There are thousands of rare creatures that inhibit them.
- _8j50 4y ago
  And millions more will inhabit them with water and trees. You can declare state and national parks to conserve desert environment. For example in Cali Joshua Tree national park is a great example.