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There simply are too damned many of us, something that could be partially addressed with honesty about birth control, rather than the lies and religious boogy-man approaches we end up playing.
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This might not be the year for a lot of support for the water issue at least in Ca. We have been hit pretty hard by rains this year which we really can use. The snow levels are great here and i know in the state of Wash. they have record amounts.
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Water problem and population due go hand in hand, but maybe the problem can be solved in other erea's
Watering lawns to me is a huge waste of this resource. I hear people say in the summer their water bill doubles due to watering the lawn. My advice is get drought resistant grass and in the summer it's going to look a little brown, but tuff. The water is more important than your manicured lawn.
I love it when the city issues a water ban and people can only water their lawns once a week and it has to be after six oclock. Then every morning when I go to work every city owned property is being watered at 8:00am.
Also, you can install a insta-hot device for your faucets and showers, instead of letting the water run for a bit until it gets hot. This does however add to your electrical bill
I'm sure there are others, but my guess is each household and business can be 50% more efficient.
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what about salt water treatment plants on the coasts of southern cali? would that work?
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What we need to do beyond conserving better is more underground wells and more storage facilities to help when we have these drought periods.
Unfortunately these ideas have been suggested many times before without much interest. Again like so many things the less there is available the more they can charge for it.
This year we have lots of water from the rain and snow.
"According to NWS Preliminary Climatology Data (CF6), Downtown Los Angeles has recorded measurable rain on each of eight days from January 21 to January 28, 2008. This puts it in the top six of the station's wettest periods from 1921-2007."
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It has been suggested that, since there is no replenishment to the Oglala water system today, that we should drill wells and artificially resupply that system that provides the mass of irrigation to much of Wyoming, Kansas, Texas, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Colorado.
West of the Mississippi river (actually the Thornthwaite zero line, which runs north/south just to the west of the Big River), there are several other systems, perhaps not so large as the Oglala, but just as important locally, that need also to be artificially replinished.
This planet simply wasn't designed to provide much of a living to the enormous human population it now sports.
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I suppose that depends on your religious beliefs.
If, as you say, "global Warming is comming just in time", it follows that you must be a Calvinist. Personally, I have always found Calvinism a bit much, as I can't reconcile a caring God with one that intentionally plans to put human beings through rituals of Hell on earth, just because it is his plan.
Of course, I don't mean to restrict what or how you believe, so long as it does not impose on the right of any other to peacefully and respectfully believe as he or she chooses.
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Lockman: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by bdgee: This planet simply wasn't designed to provide much of a living to the enormous human population it now sports.
By the way who designed this planet anyway?
Your not getting religious on us are you?
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"Your not getting religious on us are you?"
Always have been. Maybe you are having trouble defining what "religion" is?
"agriculture is the problem, we need to ban all agriculture and make people go back to hunting and gathering. that'll save the planet... "
Yep, cause that will drop the population density multi-fold.....back to where the natural processes can cope. There simply are too darn many of us.
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