These leftist ‘urban & state planners’ colluded with state meteorologists to conclude that climate was fixed and predictable in the absence of human influence, and that short-term historical water supply records resulting from a man made dam would meet the region’s needs forever.
Just wow. /s
History now demonstrates that Earth’s weather is cyclical on the basis of several factors (including wobble and solar effects) and that southwest states’ planning was ignorant & shortsighted.
This gaslighting of drought as a ‘crisis’ deflects from what ought to be righteous blame for failed policies and enact a top-down total review of said policies.
But no: We must confront this crisis like it can be solved...as opposed to the reality: Adapt and wait it out.
Bottom line: The southwest was barren & brown when we got there for a reason.
I truly hate leftists & bureaucrats; these states can just suck it up without drawing upon the resources - liquid & fiscal - of the rest of us.
And I really don’t appreciate Chris Martenson fanning the flames of hype on ‘megadrought’ & the ‘deadpool’, awestruck describing the so-called ‘planners’ planning to totally drain Lake’s Mead & Powell with new/lower water intakes without corresponding critique.
It’s the same hype they’re peddling on ‘wildfire’ in my state, as though it’s an unnatural phenomenon.
I label it ‘climate woke’ and Martenson deserves a righteous rebuke from real Conservatives. He does identify ‘unsustainable practices’ in part, but fails to fully assign blame for a wholly manmade crisis now coined with the hysterical label ‘megadrought’.
Just for argument’s sake, what is the western meteorological equivalent term for the cycle opposite what they refer to “drought”??? Yeah. /s
Rather than echoing the ‘drought’ gaslighting, Chris really ought to be discussing the other part of this manufactured crisis: Biofuels, and the necessary policy changes which need to occur IMMEDIATELY in the face of collapse of Southwest agriculture.