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> we are quickly running out of patience for grandfather clauses. Who is "we"? Who put you in charge of speaking for everyone?

• hinkley 4y ago
  Start at the south end of the Colorado for the loudest voices, and then work your way north. So that's the entire country of Mexico who wonders where their river went, and the people upstream who are progressively less effected by the reduced flow. Then add in environmentalists and conservationists. You can't preserve wetland plants and animals when there's no wetland. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Delta https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Delta > The loss of freshwater flows to the delta over the twentieth century has reduced delta wetlands to about 5 percent of their original extent, and non-native species have compromised the ecological health of much of what remains. Stress on ecosystems has allowed invasive plants to out-compete native species along Colorado River riparian areas. Native forests of cottonwood and willow have yielded to sand and mudflats dominated by the nonnative tamarisk (also known as salt cedar), arrow-weed, and iodine bush, a transformation that has decreased the habitat value of the riparian forest.[7]
  • Turing_Machine 4y ago
    > So that's the entire country of Mexico who wonders where their river went Why is it "their river" more than, say, Colorado's river? And, once again, who put you in charge of speaking for them?
    • dsfyu404ed 4y ago
      We did when we failed to marginalize such dolts decades ago.