Menu Home About Contact Contrast July 13, 2021 ~ drunkensquirreldiaries ~ Leave a comment In one day I read two articles that struck me. On Sunday July 11 th I came across an LA Time article headlined, “Unrecognizable.” Lake Mead, a lifeline for water in Los Angeles and the west, tips toward crisis . Five minutes after finishing “Unrecognizable” I stopped on a BBC article headlined, Virgin Galactic: Sir Richard Branson rockets to the edge of space.
The LA Times piece describes that the west is in such a destructive drought that Lake Mead’s coast line has become unrecognizable to those who have lived and recreated on the lake for decades. The water has been depleted by natural and human hands for decades and has now become so low, authorities are discussing the need to reduce water supplies to hundreds of thousands of people in the next few years. My feeble mind can not begin to comprehend the effect this will have on individual people let alone to the
Humans have been terraforming earth since civilization began. The complex terracing and drain systems the Nabataeans engineered so as to live and thrive in the deserts of Jordan, the ancient Egyptians and the utilization of the flooding of the Nile River, the use of dams to redirect waters all over the world. The Nabataeans, the Egyptians, the small individual farmers throughout the world were but the beginning. The US has mastered agriculture on an industrial scale. Not without its hiccups, or warnings dep