Healthy soil and sustainable growing

["Tradingpost" <tradingpost@lobo.net>]

SoCal, Vegas, and Phoenix seem to be in the same boat, er, desert. The
Colorado river is being fought over and they aren't making any more water.
I see some states are loosening their rainwater collection rules. Greywater
for gardens is promising. 

paul tradingpost@lobo.net

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On 12/4/2007 at 4:54 AM Phil Bunch wrote:

>This is very interesting. It reminds me a lot of the arguments that were
>being made by the Zero Population Growth and Limits to Growth folks a few
>years back. This looks a lot like the early stages of the demand
over-shoot
>problem. Too much population demanding more than the productive systems
can
>supply.
>
>It looks to me like some areas such as Southern California are hosed. Even
>if people wanted to grow their own food and had room to do so the cost of
>water will become prohibitive as the climate warms and dries on a regional
>scale. There is not enough carrying capacity. This is not good.
>
>People are not good at identifying slow change even when it affects them
in
>important ways. Sustainability requires foresight but when the required
>signals are muted by the convenience of day-to-day life the message does
>not
>arrive in time. What happens when folks wake up and realize that they are
>in
>trouble? Anyone living on the land had better be prepared for a lot of
>refuges.
>
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