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If you have ever seen the film ‘Chinatown,’ you are aware of the fictionalized destruction of an entire agricultural valley, and lake, to get hold of enough water so that Los Angeles could become a world-class city. Just as Upper State New York has a large undeveloped area to serve as New York City’s water catch-basin to supply such a large number of people, LA, in a much dryer climate, also needed umpteen tons of fresh water. What is the larger lesson?
A very important lesson is one that people often forget: when it comes to populations of humans, no matter how people might be crowded together or stacked on top of each other in high-rises, as in Manhattan, especially in higher standard of living nations, at least several acres of land are necessary to support each individual. This includes everything from water collection to highways and airports to crops and on and on.
So we should remember all this when we are told by our hostile ruling elites that ‘America still has plenty of room’ to take in the rest of the world’s teeming ever-doubling masses. After all, a person would have to be fairly unhinged not to recognize China or India as being overpopulated, and yet both still possess great stretches of seemingly empty land. There are unavoidable ecological reasons why such areas are sparsely populated.
Mono Lake
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Mono Lake (/ˈmoʊnoʊ/ moh-noh) is a large, shallow saline soda lake in Mono County, California, formed at least 760,000 years ago as aterminal lake in a basin that has no outlet to the ocean. The lack of an outlet causes high levels of salts to accumulate in the lake. These salts also make the lake water alkaline.
This desert lake has an unusually productive ecosystem based on brine shrimp that thrive in its waters, and provides critical nesting habitat for two million annual migratory birds that feed on the shrimp.[2][3]
The human history of Mono Lake is associated with its productive ecosystem. The native Kutzadika'a people derived nutrition from the larvae of the alkali flies that live in the lake. When the city of Los Angeles diverted water from flowing into the lake, it lowered the lake level, which imperiled the migratory birds. The Mono Lake Committee formed in response, winning a legal battle that forced Los Angeles to partially restore the lake level. ...
The Mono Lake Story
In 1941, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power began diverting Mono Lake's tributary streams 350 miles south to meet the growing water demands of Los Angeles. ...
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