Quote Originally Posted by Richard View Post
There was a reason it was a tiny town when bugsy first visited.

The poor Colorado has to feed all of them states and the growth.

Dubai was built in the middle of a desert and got creative on how to pump millions of gallons a day into it.

Holland is below sea level but has existed for thousands of years by controlling the water.

Despite its wasteful reputation, Las Vegas actually reuses 93 percent of its water. It's paid homeowners $200 million to rip up their thirsty lawns. The city added 400,000 people last decade but cut its water use by 33 percent.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lake-me...-water-supply/

But there is something to be said about building in an location and expecting Mother Nature to change her course or try and alter her course.

So is it really best policy to spend trillions trying to change something we never will be able to,or adapt in a responsible manner.

So a little girl travels across the oceans in order to send a message about climate change.

How does she do it? By putting 5 people in a boat constructed of materials that will never break down in the natural environment,that was formed by intergrading some of the most environment harming materials that takes a massive carbon base to construct.

It would have been way less of a carbon footprint by putting those same 5 people on a plane,where the footprint would have been spread over 150 others.

If Dubai can build a pipeline to water a city,we build pipelines that carry oil,natural gas,and gasoline from one end of the country so why not a water pipeline from Texas to Lake Mead?
You're OT on your own thread! LOL

PS, the problem w/Greta's boat trip is not the manufacturing of the boat, when you consider life-cycle and what the plane is made of too........

Its more than the crew that sails it back to the UK is flying to NYC to pick it up; while the captain on the trip to NYC is flying home. Creating a minimum of 6-person trips by flight, where Greta and her Dad alone would have been 4.

So there was a net increase of 2 trips by plane for this stunt.

I saw that as someone who strongly supports action on the climate file and the environment more broadly.

But yes, this was a stunt; was it worthwhile? Depends on its impact on what people actually do, really.

Don't know how quantifiable that is, mind you. [[the relationship between any future action and that trip)