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2naSalit

(86,533 posts)
6. I hope they can win on this
Sun Nov 29, 2015, 02:28 PM
Nov 2015

and what about water? Is there even enough in that location to sustain a community that large it what appears to be a desert? And they can get the cattle off the land too as far as I'm concerned.

And some additional questions:

Just how much energy will it take to build and sustain such a development when it is getting increasingly hotter there?

How many are willing to live in a place where resources are becoming more scarce?

Aside from the threatened species, what about all the other impacts associated with a development of this size?


As an ESA specialist of a sort (I give talks on the ESA, sometimes paid) I cringe when people start to argue against the Act because I can see that they truly don't know what the Act says that we, as a nation, have agreed to do in order to protect the natural realm. It isn't a long or very complicated legislation... all of 45 pages including definitions - a little more than 2 pages. And these pages are 5.5" X 4.25".

If you don't understand the Act, get educated because the same Congressional toads who want to end so many of our rights are also diligently trying to rescind this Act so their billionaire buddies/overlords can make more money to and steal more of our "Commons".

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