Environmental scientists have been warning us since the days of author and 60's environmental activist Rachel Carson that we would be encountering catastrophic global changes in the future but yet over the decades this has been pushed to the back burner. Now is the time to stop dithering and act.
The western United States is literally drying up and blowing away. According to a recent CBS 60 minutes segment, California's San Joaquin and Salinas Valleys are turning into dust bowls and becoming incapable of growing sufficient produce for not only the western states but the United States at large. Utah's Great Salt Lake is disappearing and taking its valuable wetlands with it and the Colorado River has been reduced to a mere trickle relative to its former self. Yet at the same time the eastern United States is being inundated by heavy rainfall.
We need a new Tennessee Valley Authority project that will create a national water grid of pipelines to quickly transport surplus water from the soggy East to the parched West and solve this age old problem once and for all. We have the technology and the scientific expertise to get this done. This could be the infrastructure project of the century and could transform our nation into the breadbasket of the world. Such an undertaking would most likely create wealth like we have never seen and provide thousands of good jobs just as the TVA did back in the 30's. So, what's it going to be Congress? Shortsightedness or abundance? The specter of starvation or security?
If you agree with this post, then please do two things:
1. Look up your congressman by clicking on "Government 101" to the left of the main section of "We the People" and contact him or her and make your wishes known. I know, it's hard the first time you do it but after a while, calling your representative will become second nature. After all they work for you!
2. Remember to vote in the next election!
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