Colorado River "Solutions" - Desalination, Pumping More Groundwater, Cloud Seeding - Anything But Conserving Water

[Envirogal]

2. Population is always the problem

Too much human migration to these very dry regions and the strains of meeting these needs just exasperates the problem. More air conditioning leads to more emissions.

If policy and business leaders can’t focus on more conservation efforts, nature is eventually going to make that decision for them. And the residents are going to have to do with less if they choose to live there. The proposed solutions are all short term and degrade the environment long term. The river is going to dry out if they can’t get with reality and make everyone take the haircut. Perhaps growing cotton and golf courses in a desert should be rethought.

Growth is a Ponzi scheme that only survives by more growth. Without a solid foundation feeding the system, it will eventual collapse because nothing real holds it together. Population growth has given the false notion of economic “success” but it’s the very thing that will
Collapse the system due to the demands on it.

Every policy leader and engineer needs take a “systems thinking” course to learn how nature works and lean in to that rather than the human hubris of thinking you can one up nature. Nature has 4 billion years of R&D so it would be best to start there. Every economic development agency needs to start figuring out how to be satisfied with their situation instead of adding people or business (new development) as the only solution.