true enough, but also, there is absolutely no way that piping out the great lakes would be viable and wouldn't lead to the destruction of one of the few ecosystems likely to survicve climate change for more than a few decades+
Obama Sold The Great Lakes to China
Was a Boomer meme floating around a decade ago.
I think there will definitely be people in the Midwest who will try. But I also think there are a bunch of Midwest capitalist interests who will fight back. Particularly as the value of the water skyrockets and the Great Lakes start looking like giant banking reserves.
Excited for the 2050 Civil War: Water Wars Edition
Aren't these states also the ones who tend to play up the rugged individualism bullshit?
Go to Lake Havasu sometime and witness a town full of boomers spitting in the face of god.
> better weather year-round
> constant drought
> wildfires
> currently 110 degFYeah what are they talking about. Better weather is on the coast, everywhere else is terrible.
even the coast fucking sucks in the summer tbh
the best weather is on equatorial mountains/plateaus. It never gets hot or cold
The east coast sucks in the summer but the west coast is great. I mean the actual coast, though. More than a mile inland and I want to die.
What part of better weather year-round here in the West (rather than plowing through snow, flooding, and tornados) didn’t occur to you?
It's like :grillman: chuds and :maybe-later-kiddo: liberals did a fusion dance.
better weather year-round here in the West
ah yes, 'inside of an oven' is definitely better weather
But don't ask us for help with your problems
lol what the fuck does the sonoran desert have that could help people in the midwest?
historically the Sonoran desert was where they sent tuberculosis patients because the dry air helped their lungs but that wouldn't even work now there's too much smog lol
Hey I've seen that as the premise for half a dozen cowboy movies
Not even, peyote takes like 20 years to grow properly and it's currently on its way to becoming extinct due to people looking for an easy way to commune with the universe or w/e.
Don't know honestly, just knew that peyote takes a long time to mature and that it's vulnerable due to overconsumption. My cousin told me this, about 2 weeks after arriving back to Mexico.
Also read that apparently this perennial 'communing with God' thing may be more of a Western artifact than an actual 'universal truth/core', since tribes that have been taking their substances report more of a talking with the local spirits/ dealing with brujería & mal de ojo.
https://aeon.co/essays/is-psychedelics-research-closer-to-theology-than-to-science
I'm not saying 'don't take drugs': it's your life, do whatever you want. It's just food for thought.
YOU. CAN. BUY. MESCALINE. CACTI. AT. HOME. DEPOT. STOP. EATING. PEYOTE.
Right? If people in the Midwest wanted anything from a hot, near-barren wasteland they can just go to western Kansas or like Oklahoma
Keep your muddy water
Okay? Like that's literally what they said they'd prefer to do in response to you begging for it?
and another thing, I'm not mad, please don't put in the newspaper that I got mad
they need the ground to look like chocolate but it's only vanilla-butterscotch
How does that King of the Hill bit go again?
"110 degrees? That can't be right... Oh god, it's like standing on the sun!"
"This city should not exist, it is a monument to Man's arrogance"
Jesus, the night time low in Phoenix today is 86f/30c. Too hot to walk my dog at midnight.
For that reason, I'm advocating for ocean desalination preferably via the Gulf of California. Pulling seawater that could be desalinated either in Mexico or California (or both) is much closer than transiting water from the Mississippi.
I wonder why California, the much larger and wealthier state that's right on the Gulf of California and which also suffers from chronic water shortages hasn't already done this.
Eh, probably no major practical or financial reason.
California doesn't touch the gulf of California. Its the water between Baja California and mainland Mexico. His back up plan is begging Mexico.
Huh, today I learned.
Does make it way worse that his go-to strategy is extracting resources from the global south, though that's par for course now.
how can you afford all that electricity with all those bitcoins waiting to be mined
Pipe the desalinated water into a reservoir, build a dam to generate power exclusively for "green" Bitcoin.
