I SAW SOMEHTING ABOUT THIS ON PBS....LIKE THE SUN WASNT REACHING THE EARTH ENOUGH CUZ OF THE GASES IN THE ATMOSEPHERE, SO THE WATER WASNT EVAPORATING AT AN EFFICENT RATE CUZ THE GLOBAL WARMING WAS BLOCKING OUT THE SUN...
I DONT SEE ANY SOLUTIONS TO IT UNTIL WE STOP WITH ALL THIS WASTEFUL EMMISIONS SHIT AND START TO USE MASS TRANSIT...I MEAN 85% OF COMMUTING IS A ONE PERSON COMMUTE...WE NEED TO START CARPOOLING
How are you going to do it? With the massive suburbian sprawl surrounding the cities?
I had to fly to LA a few weeks ago, and I had the opportunity to see Phoenix, Las Vegas and the LA basin from the sky, you have to see it from above to realize how truly frightening it is - enormous areas are covered with low rising single family houses, which people have to commute >10 miles from and to every day, and which waist so much energy for heating, air conditioning and so much water for maintenance of the green areas that it is scary to just think about... all of that in the middle of the desert; it is an idiocy of the highest proportions....
LA is all houses, from the sea to the mountains, with virtually no unbuilt areas, and with a few scyscrapers in the downtown. I spent three days there and I realized how dependent on the car you are in such a city, it is just not built for anything else than people with cars enjoying cheap and abundant gas and oil.... (I live on the East coast so you can understand why I had not truly appreciated this before)
You just can't live biking or walking, it is not possible... And you can't introduce mass transportation because the population density is so sparse. If you want to change something, this will require dramatic changes in the infrastructure and the very culture and way of life people of such proportions that I can not see how anything else other than the moment when the world runs out of oil can force people to do something about it... and most of them have no idea of the scale and importance of the problems