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hunter

(40,706 posts)
15. Heh.
Tue May 6, 2014, 02:15 PM
May 2014

Loved the desalinization propaganda video... such sweet nostalgia.

The video reminded me so much of the old San Onofre and Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant promotions. So slick.

Does Southern California really need to be further developed with projects that make the wealthy wealthier and everyone else increasingly miserable, underpaid, and overworked?

Where does it end? With all of us as housekeepers and groundskeepers for the upper classes? Maybe they can jam us all into apartment slums, away from the beaches and nice ocean views. Oops, too late. It's already like that. Ask the people working hard in the background to maintain this illusion of prosperity. Do they have green lawns and palm trees? Does someone else clean their toilets and change their sheets for them? Do they golf on pretty green courses?

In my utopia we're solving water problems by returning things to a natural state and low energy lifestyles. Wetlands are being restored, housing in unstable and environmentally sensitive areas is being removed, and quite a few people are happily relocating to places that actually have good water resources and communities that are not stratified into a wealthy class and a struggling class.


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