Posted by zog
on September 1, 2009, 12:58 pm
An interesting article pointing out the long range forecasts for water availability in the US and around the world. Remember, water is at the top of the list for survivability. We are already seeing the effects of lack of water, especially by short sighted politicians and developers who have lost a bundle and a lot of cred from having to abandon new developments and then later excuse their ignorance and idiocy by going "gee, sorry about that, seems to be not enough water here to support all these new folks". And it's just going to keep getting worse.
http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article13046.html
Having multiple sources of water is a *dang good thing* and is one of the easiest things to do in advance of a crisis...in most circumstances. In others, not so easy. One of the hard decisions to make is, if you are living in an area that is just gonna have a bad water crisis..you might want to consider moving in advance of the herds to a better place. That's not going to be cheap or easy, but usually there are other benefits to living in an area with better water supply, such as the ability to grow your own food and not having to worry so much about outdoor water restrictions.
And don't think it can't happen to the home garden, in California they shut off water to the nation's winter veggie food basket, which is a *really big deal* and shows their lack of foresight and planning and an urban mindset that skews biological reality, and this has half collapsed a multi billion dollar industry that has a lot of political clout, and they still weren't able to stop it. They basically told the farmers tough luck, now go away and be bankrupt and no, you don't get any big banker's bailout, you are a peon... the delta smelt and watering the cities with the exploding and mostly illegal alien populations is more important to them politically than food production...just more votes eventually and more imported cheaper labor. Science and engineering loses out to politics. Short term thinking, the bane of modern life from our "leaders". I mean these doofuses can't even do basic arithmetic, let alone anything more complex than that.
If they can do that there, they could easily do it to lesser importance small backyard gardens in drought prone areas.
It's also a good idea to note that these drought prone areas that are at or passed peak water availability seem to catch fire a lot...check the headlines...and again, science and engineering lose out to feel good politics, can't build fire roads or engage in preventative brush clearing..even though these fires waste cubic miles of potential fuel-it's just biomass after all and could have been used to run efficient "peaker plants" or something, and also contribute heavily to massive air pollution and "global warming".
All that heat and smoke from these hugemongous fires have the associated greenhouse gases and so on, yet the radical one world totalitarian bent enviros always seem to minimize or ignore that reality. Heck, they could have set up massive biochar facilities (think also more useful and practical jobs) and start getting that extra carbon back down into the soil in their breadbasket areas, get that carbon way down deep where it will work for centuries instead of EVERY year letting cubic miles burn up, where it destroy things, kills people and all sorts of animals domestic and wild, etc. Plus then, after those really nasty fires, when it eventually does rain again you get incredible topsoil erosion and it silts up the same creeks and rivers and so on where they are trying to "save the endangered fish" and wipes them out.
Basically, as a real greenie and real conservationist, my opinion of some of their policies is "boneheads if you allow them some slack, dangerous goons with another pretty bad agenda if you don't". Either way, wrong and stupid.
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