Its been a few days since a KC Philosophical rant, but I cant help myself. Ive been talking QUITE a few people about something that means a great deal to me: water. I think we all worried about it. It hasnt rained in LA since 2012. Im sure anyone on ANY continent that reads this can think of an example close to them. A drought. A draining of a lake or river. The list goes on...... I posted about a week ago on how the Aral Sea has been basically destroyed thru over use and unsustainable development and farming methods. And that started a conversation. Its made me, personally, to do even more reading on the topic as I grew up on Lake Michigan, a part of the Great Lakes and a place I will probably become an old man. And what I read scares the hell out of me. Why? I love nature. I respect and treasure it. The lakes are not mine. They belong to nature. ALL forms of life. And its use should be respectful, simple and wise: as its always been. The more I read, the more I realize there is already an amazing amount of pressure from business and government for the lakes to be used simply as a commodity that can be abused, not respected as the massive (and threatened) ecosystem that it is. To some, it is to be gathered and sold. Shit within. Pissed upon. Drilled beneath. Rerouted. Drained and shipped. Its a profit waiting to happen. And so few realize it. THAT must change. We all need to wake up. Its already happened, even here in the USA. Here is a link about the Colorado River and how MAN has basically destroyed what is one of the worlds greatest rivers. We had the balls as America (and Im sad to say this) back in the 60s to build a damn and basically tell the Mexicans (the natural destination to where the river ended since who knows HOW long and home of a massive river delta that provided water for millions of people and billions of animals the is now dead......) that we need the water to grow crops in the desert and water our golf courses and front yards and somehow have a right to do so. It seems some have realized the wrong-ness of this all and HAVE restored the river flow ONLY in the last year (!!!) only slightly as an experiment ...... to me, the destruction of the Colorado is more of a demonstration of what COULD happen to the natural resource that I grew up on and will probably spent many years of the rest of my life. This COULD happen to the Great Lakes. And if you are in denial of this, I ask you to lift your head from the sand and educate yourselves. Caring about the lakes (or any nature that you live near) is not selfish. If people would like the water within the lakes I love to better their lives, I welcome them to come and live on the shores (respectfully) or within the natural water basin that they create. There certainly is a lot of real estate for sale. But Ill be damned if your going to pipe it away to water your golf course, drill for your oil, water your crops where they arent supposed to naturally grow, etc...... I would prefer not WAITING until those agree with me have to make a last stand. Get involved. NOW!!! Water has always been a LOCAL resource and should simply always be that way. stratfor/analysis/us-mexico-decline-colorado-river#axzz3FJ315k4l
Posted on: Sun, 05 Oct 2014 21:41:08 +0000
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