impartialobserver

I am ok with less fossil fuels but good old realism gets in the way. We are just not at the point where we can phase out fossil fuels and the products made from them.. not yet. For example.. plastics. We can recycle plastics but even that has some pretty sizeable limitations as of yet.

Except that there are not two sides in this; israel vs. palestine. Both have allies that feel the need to get involved. that being said.. they could coexist peacefully simply choose not to. Most western nations would not be ok with Israel being defeated. Likewise.. the muslim world would not be ok with Palestine being defeated/destroyed.

I am not so sure about this.. Reaching peak consumption and/or production is hard to predict.

In the rural parts of the Western US.. there are only 3 industries; Mining, Cattle ranching, and farming. Low level retail, small time restaurants, and government coming to accommodate these. When you have a place that averages 5 inches of precipitation per year and there is one river, the primary user of the water in most cases is cattle ranching. I get it.. what else do you do in Delta, UT or Wells, NV? If you want to live here and have employment, you have to do one of those 3 primary industries. So what is the result of them using the majority of the river water.. it runs dry before its natural end and you get even more desolate stretches of desert that we call playa.. to connect this to Conservatives.. most states in the west have the dichotomy of vast wide open, sparsely populated spaces with a heavily Conservative base coupled with a few cities that are highly liberal. Nevada, Utah, Idaho, and New Mexico are prime examples of this.

Fossil fuels stop being consumed by 2030.. such fantasies. Why stop with that one? What about jet packs where we simply strap on the jet pack and fly through the sky to work or wherever.

Next concert on the docket

Being religious or believing in God makes you a better person.

This conflicts reminds me of kids fighting and both claiming that the other started it.. There has to come a time when one side or the other stops caring about "who started it" or past grievances. That is a lot to ask, I know.

I wish that I was wrong but I can see a UBI coming in a decade or two. The days where someone worked the repetitive job at the factory are coming to an end. Mining.. is becoming automated. A lot of repetitive cognitive jobs are being automated.. payroll processing being the best example. I could see certain landscaping tasks going to automation.. mowing lawns and trimming of trees.

This will be very unpopular with Conservatives but one of the bigger issues is cattle ranching. This is not a climate change topic at all. It has to do with cattle ranching being a high volume consumer of said scarce and therefore precious water. They are the primary draws on the rivers of the West. Yes, there is more to the West than the Colorado River. With cattle ranching comes erosion because the cattle eat the ground cover and so when you do get rain.. any biological matter such as dead plants and such gets washed away. In a lot of the West.. the soil is salty and that inhibits most plants from being able to grow. Lastly.. there is not a lot of actual soil in what we call Southern UT, Southern NV, NW Arizona. So having cattle ranching is a poor use of the water.

This troll also has admitted to never having been to CA.. but he is such an expert on it.

the legal battle exists regardless of who reports the existence of said legal battle.. I know that you can't comprehend that. What makes you both sad and comical is that you honestly believe that everyone is this die-hard ideological type like you? If I read in the New York Times that the high temperature in a place was 67 degrees yesterday.. that must mean that I am a leftist and that the NYT is incorrect about this low temp. This is why it is a great thing that you do not work in any capacity where you are paid to be objective.

I have a wife and two kids. Simply have no desire to add a fourth responsibility to my existence.

are your posts going to change the number of innocent people that will inevitably be killed in the future? You surely do not believe that this vicious cycle is going to stop anytime soon?

Its one thing to lie but when you lie and motivate your followers to harass the folks that you are lying about.. that is where it changes.

Does it not seem a bit silly to get worked up about this when you know it is going to happen in six months or so from now? Nothing will have changed. Same story but different calendar date

When it comes to Israel and the Middle East..it feels like lather, rinse, and repeat. Every year.. stories like this come about and folks get worked up. After a while they simmer down and go on to something else. Just not convinced that this will end in my lifetime and not much I can do to change it.

Lake mead is up this year. However that is not the point. The point is that in the long term.. this current level of drawing from the colorado river is not sustainable. Too many people living in a very hot and dry place (Southern NV, Southern CA, and most of AZ)

I guess.. the truth hurts. If I had made a thread about Nancy Pelosi or Donald Trump.. the number of responses would be 50x to 100x what it will be. Back to the topic.. this is going to be vastly more impactful than the results of any election. Who cares who you elect if there is no water and therefore no homes, employment, or anything else. The high number of sunny days makes the agriculture happen. Also, folks like mild weather and sun. They are willing to put up with 110 degree days as long as later on in the year.. they do not have to endure snow, ice, frosted windows, shoveling snow, and all that comes with it. Before you blast away.. I live in Reno which is high desert. Meaning that we get snow and low-ish temps (winter day time highs of 35 and low of 15 is as bad as it gets).

I know that this will get very few views.. because it actually matters unlike gossiping about id10t politicians. For the Western US.. this hits home no matter if you care about politics or not. https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/30/us/colorado-river-water-california-arizona-climate/index.html

Its difficult to take someone seriously when no matter the context of a discussion.. they veer off into left field

off topic... so predictable.

USA..your predictions are not fact.. no matter how many times you say.

Hmmm.. and I do not live in Canada. In short.. your post is 100% prediction. Predictions are not fact.

There is value to traveling and spending time in very remote settings. Without the constant stimulus of lights, sounds, traffic, other people, etc... one really is able to focus. Also, it illuminates just how dependent one is on technology living in the modern city. So many aspects of your existence are tied into internet connections and such.