Too bad pollution isn't ENTIRELY imaginary.
I should know, I live in the DFW metroplex and the air pollution here is hardly imaginary.
It is also HIGHLY dependent on the winds - no wind and we stagnate pretty quickly ... so how does this enter into your equation, when nature seems to be part of the problem when she doesn't cause the winds to blow?
Estimates about future water demands are hardly unrealistic either.
The estimates are hardly unrealistic? What does this mean?
Thousands of landowners in East Texas will be losing their homes and property to make way for a new reservoir to meet future demands in the burgoining DFW.
Thousands? Hundreds perhaps, but thousands? Those who would be losing their 'homes' are already living low in the watersheds and those areas are PRONE to flooding already - we would be doing some of these people favors by buying out their bottom lands!
Of all of Texas, we are the lucky ones. Central Texas is either flooding or dried up.
The natural order of things - with the FLOODING usually occurring as a result of hurricanes moving inland ...
West and South Texas have been dry for years.
Again, the natural orer of things ... go east of I-35 from the Ft Worth area and you can see the difference in vegetation - owing to the amount of rain received as a result of where that warm, moisture-filled Gulf of Mexico air meets cold fronts moving down from the north!
You say fake air pollution readings? Noone can dispute what I see and the epidemic of asthma here.
SOME of that is due to poor health practices in homes (sealed enclosures/homes that no longer receive the ventilation that homes used to receive coupled with the *outgassing* of plastics into those sealed houses and then we have obese KIDS that no longer exercise to the degree that they used too!)