Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Peak Water in the American West

Click here to access article by Peter Gleick from ScienceBlogs.

We are informed of another approach to ecological limits in the American West by this author. City reservoirs are going dry, dam levels are lowering, fights over water supplies are increasing, etc. However he offers only a short-term set of proposals for correcting the problem. The fundamental problem which he, and most other people insist on ignoring, is an economic system that demands growth.