Super long form article on the politics of water, housing, development, farming and immigration in Arizona where the legislature is almost fully captured by MAGA nihilists and where the kinda-hero of the story is a Mormon zealot who believes in the divine inspiration of the Constitution
We’re fucking doomed y'all
This map is on a percentile scale, but it does illustrate how screwed the southwest is compared to the rest of the country. In 20-30 years, the desert southwest - and removedpa in particular - is going to be uninhabitable. People know this; politicians get briefed, scientific papers are getting increasingly blunt. And yet the insanity continues.
What's it going to take?
You hear anything about our medium term chances here in Florida? Is the interior going to be done in by the heat and humidity? I know people always talk about the sea level rising but, most outside observers seem to forget that not everyone here lives in Miami.
life will get a little harder every day for the rest of your life or until china and the global south roll tanks in to liberate and reeducate us, whichever comes first
Well, considering that the Chinese would require a naval buildup that they're presently not interested in pursuing in order to have such power projection, I guess we'll all cook to death.
don't underestimate the amount of time you might have left
During those days men will seek death, but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them. The locusts looked like horses prepared for battle. On their heads they wore something like crowns of gold, and their faces resembled human faces.
Yes, but the Chuds will read that and sacrifice queer folks like me first to appease their God.
Florida gets pre-cooked petroleum flavored bouillabaisse from the Gulf while they wait for the waves to cover them.
I'm imagining all the Chuds from upstate New York who came down here for the cheap land trying to flee in the opposite direction to escape the temperatures, only to find that once again, I beat them back home by a couple of decades.
I mean, Florida is essentially a swamp that was drained for real estate purposes
I've seen some pretty dire projections showing like almost half of Florida being underwater in like 40 years
Here's how Kagi summarizes it:
- Phoenix's rapid growth and development in the Sonoran Desert has been fueled by an unsustainable reliance on water resources, leading to a looming water crisis.
- The water crisis disproportionately impacts vulnerable populations like the homeless, who suffer greatly from the extreme heat and lack of access to water.
- Solving the water crisis requires collective action and political cooperation, which is hindered by increasing political polarization and extremism in Arizona.
- The rise of right-wing, anti-democratic movements like Turning Point USA are sowing division and undermining faith in democratic institutions and processes.
- The water crisis is intertwined with broader issues of inequality, immigration, and the urban-rural divide in Arizona.
- Arizona State University is experimenting with models of mass, accessible higher education that aim to transcend partisan divides.
- The experiences of undocumented immigrant families like the Cortez family illustrate the human costs of failed immigration policies.
- Despite political divisions, there are signs of common ground and pragmatic problem-solving around issues like water management.
- The document highlights the tension between individual freedoms/property rights and collective responsibility for shared resources like water.
- The water crisis in Phoenix serves as a microcosm for the broader challenges facing American democracy and society.
tldr; Left-bashing liberal copes about the historical consequences of his ideology for 25,000 words
