Putting Out Fires

I GAVE MYSELF my best Christmas ever; a new wooden floor, a new set of tires, a new forty three inch flatscreen, and, last but not least, a brand new air mattress. The flat screen comes equipped with "ROKU", which means that as long as I have internet service, I have hundreds of TV channels. As I predicted, I tend to gravitate towards about two of them, my favorite being the "Escape To Nature" channel with the never ending program "Wild Earth", which is nothing but footage, a lot of footage, of nature. News channels seem to me highly commercialized, stylized info-entertainment channels, and, at the moment, the focus is on the massive wildfires plaguing Los Angeles and southern California. A little bit of that goes a long way. What for the life of me I don't uderstand is why we haven't already built and put into operation a massive desalination facility near Los Angeles, and why we aren't doing so right now, or aren't, evidently, planning to anytime in the near future, if ever. A facility purifying (desalinating) millions if not billions of ocean water every day, and piping it all over the country, if not the continent, if not the hemisphere. If I am not mistaken, the prevailing belief has been and perhaps remains that the amount of sheer energy required to operate such a facility is so staggering that the expense is prohibitive. Again, this makes no sense to me. Simply construct and instal a solar energy facility as part of the desalination facility, and use solar energy to remove salt from sea water. Southern California is, of course, the perfect place for solar energy, and it would not be difficult harvesting an immense amout of sunlight near L.A.. Enough seawater could be harvested, cleaned, and pumped through pipes to irrigate the entire American southwest, the great Amerian desert, which for so many decades has hindred American economic progress by being so damned dry. Likewise, A single desalination facility in Africa could turn the Sahahra desert into the Sahara agricultural breadbasket and rainforest of the world, in theory. West of the Mississippi the greatest environmental threat to the United States, due to climate change, is and will be drought. This region experiences at least one, and often several, severe droughts each and every year, millions of acres of pernnially parched, unproductive land, the worst possible fire hazard. And every year, the situation is getting worse, in California, and all across the country, across America's formerly fruited plain, as climate change intensifies, worsens. By moving purified water in huge amounts from a facility near Los Angeles to locations throughout the drought plagued American southwest, this increasingly serious problem could be seriously mitigated. In the United States, particularly considering the current political climate and leadershhip, extreme pressure must be applied by the American people, pressure on political leaders to not only do something about climate change and environmental collapse, but to take drastic action of the sort which is now necessary for our future survival. Climate change is the cause of the current wildfire disaster in California. The disasters will become worse, and more frequent, soon. The U.S. federal government will soon consist largely of climate change deniers, which will be disastrous for America and for the entre Earth, if we, the American people, don't do something, don't force MAGA to accept reality.