Comments on: It’s the Economy, Stupid

By: Wanda

Wanda — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 16:18:59 +0000

It seems that common sense is completely gone and replaced with greed and excess, and no body cares about the reality of the land.

I lived in CA and west Texas for awhile, years ago, and made a few trips back and forth across the southwest. I’ve often wondered, how long the water would last, in those dry desert areas.

By: Billy The Blogging Poet

Billy The Blogging Poet — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 00:31:56 +0000

Unbelievable… Several years ago on my last trip to the west coast I noticed the once mighty Colorado River now runs dry before it crosses into Mexico– dry as in the hot sand burns your feet dry, dry as in parched– and these morons want to waste water to provide what will no doubt be minimum wage jobs?

The real tragedy is that no one cares enough to stop it.

By: fred

fred — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 16:05:42 +0000

Of course this water park is just individual irresponsibility and self-gratification and ostentatious lifestyle writ large, but it adds a totally avoidable in-your-face insult to an otherwise already misused landscape.

By: Gary Boyd

Gary Boyd — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 15:45:07 +0000

Take a minute and fly over Phoenix (or Las Vegas) in Live Search Maps set to hybrid view. Does it mater all that much about a large scale water park when over 70% of the houses in a lot of neighborhoods have swimming pools out back being sucked dry by the desert air?

As long as we (as in humans) insistt on living in inhospitable spots, we will run short of the resources needed to survive. The entire American Southwest is just one natural or manmade disaster away from being totally unlivable for the vast number of people living there.