The West has droughts, the East has floods ..

[dogtag]

Instead of east coasters having to deal yearly with unwanted swimming
pools in their basements and west coasters farmers having to fallow their
fields instead of growing vegetables, maybe a pipeline project might be
in order. Get rid of water where it's not wanted by piping it to where it
is wanted. Been done before. The Oil Baron Rockefeller built a pipeline
to ship his oil in order to avoid Vanderbilt's high train freight costs.

Nah, Biden would cancel it.

[Allen]

Thought about that many times. Like everything else, the gov't would get involved and screw things up. In this case they would have the Eastern states pump water into the pipeline continuously to supply the West even when there were no floods causing the East to have droughts too.

[dogtag]

Thought about that many times. Like everything else, the gov't would get involved and screw things up. In this case they would have the Eastern states pump water into the pipeline continuously to supply the West even when there were no floods causing the East to have droughts too.

Yeah, The Stan and Ollie pipeline company.

[pcox]

You want to pay to pump water over the rocky mountains? Not me.

[dogtag]

You want to pay to pump water over the rocky mountains? Not me.

Then I hope you enjoy your tasty urine

[lyman]

Instead of east coasters having to deal yearly with unwanted swimming
pools in their basements and west coasters farmers having to fallow their
fields instead of growing vegetables, maybe a pipeline project might be
in order. Get rid of water where it's not wanted by piping it to where it
is wanted. Been done before. The Oil Baron Rockefeller built a pipeline
to ship his oil in order to avoid Vanderbilt's high train freight costs.

Nah, Biden would cancel it.

with all the water west of you, would it not be cheaper to desalinize?

[dogtag]

with all the water west of you, would it not be cheaper to desalinize?

The Fish huggers would chain themselves to something in protest.

[togor]

Pump from where to where?

[lyman]

The Fish huggers would chain themselves to something in protest.

as long as the intake they chain themselves to is under water,

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Pump from where to where?

your house to dogtag's

[dryheat]

The Fish huggers would chain themselves to something in protest.

There's not enough huggers to hug everything. They are youong in the first place and disorganized. Yeah, save a 300 hdrd yr. old tree or three thousand trees if you feel it, and you can.
When I was a kid, we stood up for a big tree in the neighborhood. The new kids wanted to chop down what we called, Big Tree. They didn't cut it down, but guess what? The Feds sold off part of the military landscape and the whole forest became part of the city and they built a jr. high school across the street from my house(we lived on the border of the base). Bigger than us for sure. You can't worry about every bug that falls into your swimming pool.
Three hundred yrs. from now they will be quoting my saying. Remember what it was? -You can't worry about every bug that falls into your swimming pool. Pretty simple. Read and stow.

[Allen]

Three hundred yrs. from now they will be quoting my saying. Remember what it was? -You can't worry about every bug that falls into your swimming pool. Pretty simple. Read and stow.

"Buy low, sell high"

"Don't eat the yellow snow"

OK, I wrote it down

[dryheat]

Hey, another story.
Ya'll know about the Alaskan pipeline. So,like everything else there were some protests(it's late and I'm talking too much, this is how people get into trouble).
The pipeline was attacked. The attackers weren't captured early on. Then many yrs. later, one of the (well, maybe the only) attacker ran his mouth too much in the bar.
Someone turned him in and I guess he went to jail. I knew the guy. Lived a block away from me. We got into a little trouble together and he was banned from coming to my house.
Over enthusiastic youth. But, I can respect it. I'm sure he is long out of jail or whatever. I'd talk to him today. He had a little more moxy than I had. His dad was a small plane pilot and I believe his older brother followed dads footsteps. Good times as kids. Salute.

[togor]

Dryheat conversely, we can "solve" endangered species by letting every one of them go extinct, and the problems will persist. Eventually we will run up against the carrying capacity of the planet, which on a sustainable basis IS less than the current population. I say that based on the size of the global fertilizer trade. Aside from nitrogen, which can be extracted from the atmosphere, potassium and phosphorus are mined.

[lyman]

"Buy low, sell high"

"Don't eat the yellow snow"

OK, I wrote it down

are you moving to Montana soon?

[dryheat]

That one made me laugh out loud.
I hear you. I have always thought there were too many people on the planet. As a little kid I was looking at a Nat Geo book and they showed places all over the world. I didn't know about long lens compression but the shots of China where people were shoulder to shoulder at the market horrified me. That was the good old days. But I can say without hyperbole this is a thousand times worse (where did you hear that one? Hint: pompous newscaster. Newscaster, there's an odd word).