Climate Change? Nahhh ...

Cadillac Desert - the defining nonfiction treatment of water mismanagement in the modern American West - was first published in 1986.

And predicted all of this.

Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water | Encyclopedia.com

 

It’s cool and in the 70s in the Northeast. T hi is time last year, June and July had a combined 30’days of 90 or above.

 

Of course before that there was Ed Abbey. https://www.denverpost.com/2018/01/12/edward-abbeys-desert-solitaire-more-relevant-than-ever/

And before that, John Muir. https://morethanjustparks.com/hetch-hetchy/

 

But tell me again about how it’s the CA government regulations that some podcast was on about

 

I love me some Edward Abbey. Hayduke 'em.

 

It's going to do it through central Canada to their northern border this time.

 

I remember the first time I visited Alabama (c. 1990), we drove through Mobile and three-bedroom apartments were renting for half of what we paid for a two-bedroom in a lousy part of Boston. 11-year-old me didn't understand why.

 

At what point do we stop dismissing individual cases with things like “it happened before” or “who says this is the average because it’s only been 150 years of data collection” and we start admitting the volume of data collected and the decades of science might actually suggest a problem? I get constantly being reminded there’s a problem gets old. But things are a problem until they’re addressed. This far we’re putting duct tape over the problem and hoping it holds. I suppose, however, some will actually believe Elon Musk when he says the comet heading for Earth will provide new sources of wealth and jobs.

 

The definitive history of the American Southwest. In the Southwest there is such a thing as "critical water theory". One way or another it is always about water.

Cadaliac Desert is one hell of a book.

 

I don't disbelieve that mining asteroids is possible, given the investment dollars. Whether it was nickel-iron or heavy metals, the profit potential is insane if you can work out a reasonable way to get down to the surface. Likely this would involve cutting it into chunks and dropping guided meteors into a given patch of ocean, then retrieving them. It's not a near term thing, and it won't cure the climate problems we're going to have. That's an entirely different sort of R&D and industrial base.

 

I'll look for it, thanks.