Jenn @ ChargeToTheParks ⚡️ @chargetotheparks.com · 4h Dwindling reservoirs aren't the result of "bad weather" or "natural cycles". They're a choice our society made. Growing thirsty crops like alfalfa and pecans in the desert is a choice. Refusing to reduce CO2 emissions is a choice. Refusing to change the water laws as reality changes is a choice.
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Drinking desalinated water is a consequence.
Btw, the huge alfalfa crops in the desert are owned by Saudi Arabians they don't care about our citizens
Growing cities in the middle of a fuckin desert. Looking at you vegas and palm springs
Correct. Low value thirsty crops grown in arid, high elevations is about the stupidest use of resources you are likely to see. So much waste and degradation.
If we can pay billions to cancel green energy projects why don't we pay farmers to stop growing water hungry crops in the desert.
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Let's add destroying habitats, allowing the ground to become barren (earth doesn't like bare ground) by removing/killing animals that keep plants in place & thriving, or covering the ground with buildings, concrete, pavement, &c. We've destroyed Earth's systems for maintaining health/life.
And selling water rights to companies that drain aquifers to sell bottled water is a choice. Infuriating.
Allowing data centers into your neighborhood is a choice. Choose your local "leaders" wisely. They are they ones escorting these water and power sucking enterprises into your communities.
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When the rain that falls on the land is absorbed almost completely, the plants will use it once, then transpire it back into the sky to fall again. If it quickly runs off into the rivers and sits behind a dam, then evaporates up , no plant has used it, we call this a drought. But we see the water?
Didn't Trump 1.0 sell off water rights to the Saudis to grow alfalfa for their horses?
Unfortunately, we ceded our ability to make those choices by choosing bad politicians, who made bad laws and are influenced by late stage capitalism oligarchs. Then they locked the door behind them, making it virtually impossible to wrest control back.
It is a sad fact everywhere. France is seeing the same thing. Seriously seeing corn watered at noon on a 40 degree day because it pays more than wheat sold locally while we have to monitor our drinking habits . Globalization of food is the worst thing along with AI. Let the water wars commence
Agreed! Utah, Nevada, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico are in for quite a shock when all of the reservoirs and rivers run dry.
I walked on the lake bottom at Rattlesnake Bar, on Folsom Lk California in October 1977. That was my introduction to drought. 2015 was a record dry there as well. Today it is roughly 75% full.
As a species, we are pretty stupid when it comes to survival.
To be sure these were bad choices but “society” itself did not make the choices. Exploiters did. Not the whole of society.
That’s a lie that you have decided to believe.
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Growing alfalfa for horses in Saudi Arabia is apparently the American way.
I like your sentiment. Yet it is not a societal choice. It is a business decision which we have no say in and politicians decide. Sure the politicians are a choice but how many have you known to keep their word? Actually represent the people who elected them?
and what about the water-thirsty onslaught of data servers?
We pipe oil from Canada to Texas. There is no reason why we cannot do the same with water, from the ocean to dry reservoirs in western/southwestern states.
Desalination plants
At least a few pedophiles became obscenely wealthy and powerful before it all crashed.
We are, not so slowly, killing the only habitable planet of which we are aware. Go figure!
Hey Jenn. Here's some science for you: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Environmental increase in CO2 reduces droughts
Gorgeous and devastating pics. What reservoir is shown here?
Name two crops you can 100% live without: 1, pecans 2, alfalfa
Ignoring climate crisis is a form of suicide
the billionaire corporations like Nestle love this cause this plan they gon sell and trade water like oil til they are trillionaires and then they'll raise the price
Lake Mead boulder basin area. Last week.
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Being ignorant of the ramifications of those choices is a choice
Water is life. No water, no life. It’s that simple.
👍Yes, and it’s definitely has been long running choices, in arrogance, by the 💩greedy wealthy.💩
Indeed, just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD. Common sense isn't at all common anymore.
Exactly. Having green lawns in the damn desert is a choice. Desert landscaping looks so much better with little to no maintenance. I’d rather have water to drink than golf courses, lawns, and data centers. Alfalfa is one of the most water dependent crops there is…why grow in the desert? 🤷🏻♀️
Refusing to work with and learn from Nature, always thinking we know better than Nature. From observing Nature it was clear that the only things that thrive in a desert are things that need very little water and are very good at conserving it. What did we do, just the exact opposite. Stupid
These pictures are from Elephant Butte Reservoir in New Mexico, built in 1916. At the time, it was the largest in the world. You can see similar scenes all over the western US. Lake Powell, Lake Mead, the Great Salt Lake, and many others are drying up because we warmed the planet and wasted water.
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Selling AN ENTIRE STATE’S water rights to a foreign nation was, in fact, a “choice”. A repooblicunt choice. floodlightnews.org/saudi-owned-...
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Trump has created a brain drain & so many US-scientists are now working on progressive alternative energy projects across the planet. For example, green hydrogen in The Atacama Desert without using water: powered by solar energy, an extraction of moisture from air to generate clean hydrogen fuel.
Having a billion golf courses with lush green grass in the middle of the AZ desert is a choice.
When it’s gone, there will be no choice!
Megadroughts, lasting 100's of years, are the norm for the interior western U.S. It's a desert and should have never been extensively developed. The periods when those dams were built and reservoirs filled were abnormally wet for the region. What we see now is normal.
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Ignoring climate change because all you want is money is a huge reason why we are in this problem.
US agriculture cannot manipulate the earth any longer now that the earth’s climate has been destroyed by fossil fuels, forever chemicals, wild fires and Republican Party legislation.
The almond farms in California have always been a source of bewilderment to me.
You’re fighting a good fight, Jenn.
Last year I drove from coast to coast and it's amazing how many bridges I Crossed that went over dry river beds. People act life our planets resources cannot be exhausted.
And bottled water. I suspect that makes a decent dent? I remember when bottled water first came out. And people were aghast that people would buy bottled water when they could get it from the tap for free. Now people refuse to drink from the tap.
Who knew that moving MILLIONS of people into the desert complete with small manicured lawns would drain Lake Mead?
Americans hate responsibility. If it's a 'natural cycle', you can play victim. If it's a 'choice', you are responsible for it. That's why so many are religious, so they can point at their god or leaders to avoid the uncomfortability of being accountable. That's why capitalism leads to fascism.
Building 98 data centers in AZ so far and another 87 or so planned is definitely not going to help. What a bunch of morons.
Not desalinating or recycling is also a choice
And building hundreds of data centers is also a choice. 😠
I've never been able to fathom the logic. The two thirstiest crops you could choose. To grow in a desert. That's puzzled me for decades