I know negotiations among states that draw from the Colorado River are ongoing with water rationing measures being discussed, but it feels like the threat of water shortage doesn’t align with booming growth in this part of the country. Is the threat overstated? Are there solutions available when things get really dire? Or is it just hubris of prioritizing short term profits instead of long term sustainability? All the above?
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We are boiling lobsters.
I’m using “boiling” as an adjective there.
That’s how people are – long-term threats are just not given the urgency they need, because our biology didn’t evolve to do that.
Billionaires exploit this tendency to make their money and will eventually destroy the civilization, if not the entire species.
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