Salt Lake City's impending disaster

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/07/climate/salt-lake-city-climate-disaster.html

Basically, they're headed for the dust bowl with arsenic in the dust, but they won't give up on watering their lawns.
Which is why we're doomed, right?

[Anonymous]

can't read, paywall

[Anonymous]

Summary: Between the drought and increasing population using water, it's shrunk a lot, is saltier, is on the verge of killing the algae, which will kill the brine shrimp and fish and migratory birds, and drying up altogether. It's full of arsenic and other toxic stuff that would then be exposed and blow all over the place.

[Anonymous]

I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

[Anonymous]

This is so sad to me. It is amazing the way they have dug themselves this hole even though the warning signs have been there for decades. My friends have been protesting bad air since the 90s. DH is from Utah there and would love to move back but I can’t imagine putting my kids in this environment.

[Anonymous]

I'm guessing that SLC and environs will at some point enforce mandatory water restrictions so some of the mountain runoff can replenish the lake. The idea of piping ocean water 600 miles from the Pacific over the Sierras and across the Great Basin is stuff of science fiction. Even if it's done, it would be astronomically expensive and take decades; it appears that Utah doesn't have decades.

A big problem with the West is that it's been populated by many people who came from somewhere else (e.g., East Coast, Midwest) where water was relatively more plentiful. Climate change aside -- there's little understanding of how to properly live, care for, and husband lands in which water is naturally less plentiful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

I think you mean Philistines, but it doesn't really apply to your sentence. Both were ancient tribes along the Mediterranean. Phoenicians were famous for their maritime routes and trade. Philistines were enemies of the ancient Israelites, and over the centuries, have been (probably unfairly) portrayed as a crude people without culture or art. So you usually call someone a Philistine if they're uncultured or unappreciative of the finer things in life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

I think you mean Philistines, but it doesn't really apply to your sentence. Both were ancient tribes along the Mediterranean. Phoenicians were famous for their maritime routes and trade. Philistines were enemies of the ancient Israelites, and over the centuries, have been (probably unfairly) portrayed as a crude people without culture or art. So you usually call someone a Philistine if they're uncultured or unappreciative of the finer things in life.

NP. Uh, a Phoenician is also a person from...Phoenix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

I think you mean Philistines, but it doesn't really apply to your sentence. Both were ancient tribes along the Mediterranean. Phoenicians were famous for their maritime routes and trade. Philistines were enemies of the ancient Israelites, and over the centuries, have been (probably unfairly) portrayed as a crude people without culture or art. So you usually call someone a Philistine if they're uncultured or unappreciative of the finer things in life.

NP. Uh, a Phoenician is also a person from...Phoenix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:can't read, paywall

It’s 2022 and you don’t know how to solve this problem? Come on, MeeMaw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

I think you mean Philistines, but it doesn't really apply to your sentence. Both were ancient tribes along the Mediterranean. Phoenicians were famous for their maritime routes and trade. Philistines were enemies of the ancient Israelites, and over the centuries, have been (probably unfairly) portrayed as a crude people without culture or art. So you usually call someone a Philistine if they're uncultured or unappreciative of the finer things in life.

NP. Uh, a Phoenician is also a person from...Phoenix.

Yeah, but then PP wouldn’t have been able to trot out their useless classics degree.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:can't read, paywall

It’s 2022 and you don’t know how to solve this problem? Come on, MeeMaw.

Not MeeMae. 😂😂

[Anonymous]

I see those gigantic SLC houses everywhere with the black windows and the giant, 2 story family rooms and it definitely feels like they’re going to be artifacts of something bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

I think you mean Philistines, but it doesn't really apply to your sentence. Both were ancient tribes along the Mediterranean. Phoenicians were famous for their maritime routes and trade. Philistines were enemies of the ancient Israelites, and over the centuries, have been (probably unfairly) portrayed as a crude people without culture or art. So you usually call someone a Philistine if they're uncultured or unappreciative of the finer things in life.

NP. Uh, a Phoenician is also a person from...Phoenix.

Yes. PP who is a Tucsonan. You can’t really say Phoenixan—even iPhone corrects that to Phoenician! Tucson never really had the grass culture and we always made fun of Phoenicians and their silly grass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m from Arizona and the Phoenicians watering their lawns in the 80s was super irritating even back then when we already knew we had a massive water shortage pending. The social norms around things like green lawns drive me bonkers—it’s such a collective inaction problem.

I think you mean Philistines, but it doesn't really apply to your sentence. Both were ancient tribes along the Mediterranean. Phoenicians were famous for their maritime routes and trade. Philistines were enemies of the ancient Israelites, and over the centuries, have been (probably unfairly) portrayed as a crude people without culture or art. So you usually call someone a Philistine if they're uncultured or unappreciative of the finer things in life.

NP. Uh, a Phoenician is also a person from...Phoenix.

😂😂😂😂