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Politicalboi

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1. If we let water run our lives

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Mon Oct 15, 2012, 06:35 PM

Oct 2012

We are the fools. We have ways to convert sea water to fresh water. We have wind turbines that produce water through condensation. We have floods almost in the same regions every year, but no plan of capturing that water to use it for food crops. One would think we were a third world country like Brazil. But then again Brazil still uses sugar cane for their cars since the first shortage in the 70's.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/17/us-climate-sugarcane-idUSTRE73G1N820110417

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Corn Belt Shifts North With Climate as Kansas Crop Dies [View all] Purveyor Oct 2012 OP

If we let water run our lives Politicalboi Oct 2012 #1

We as a nation don't utilize water well. bluestate10 Oct 2012 #5

Sea water. Care Acutely Oct 2012 #6

I wish our femrap Oct 2012 #2

I will never understand the rows and rows of white bread in Amercian grocery stores. tabasco Oct 2012 #3

Here in Cali you actually have nadinbrzezinski Oct 2012 #8

Germans grow femrap Oct 2012 #14

Oh lord, this was predicted, but I think this is faster than the predictions nadinbrzezinski Oct 2012 #4

I was in western Kansas a couple times this summer proud2BlibKansan Oct 2012 #7

Say hello to Canada, our new overlords. Matariki Oct 2012 #9

Thank you for letting us know... Trailrider1951 Oct 2012 #10

Kansas and Nebraska are dried to a crisp. Decades old established trees Care Acutely Oct 2012 #11

If this keeps up there is going to be another dust bowl. Odin2005 Oct 2012 #13

Oh great, now Western MN is going to be even more owned by Big Corn. Odin2005 Oct 2012 #12