Lake Powell is in trouble again — not shocking if you’ve watched this slow-motion trainwreck for years. The Colorado Sun piece blames climate change (duh. Wait?! You’re still not scared enough!), tags on rising demand like a footnote, and sighs through the usual environmental melodrama.
The Bullet Point Brief
- Climate change gets top billing while out-of-control water demand gets a lazy side mention.
- Southern California keeps slurping down water like frat boys at a kegger.
- Golf courses and green lawns in Palm Desert continue to thrive – in the middle of a desert drought. Makes perfect sense, right?
- Hydropower production is faltering because—shocker—you can’t generate electricity with air where there should be water.
- No mention of accountability or changing human behavior. Just vibes and victimhood.
My Bottom Line
The media circus dancing around Lake Powell’s decline continues. And predictably, they put dear ol’ “climate change” centerstage like it’s the villain twirling its mustache. Meanwhile, the actual problem — our addiction to overuse — gets shoved behind the curtain like an understudy who can’t sing. Water levels are down? Well no crap, Sherlock! We’re draining the bucket faster than God can fill it — mostly so Palm Desert can keep that lush golf course look while pretending it’s not smack dab in an oven.
My wife and I take an annual trip to Palm Desert. Beautiful place — but every time I see those perfectly manicured lawns sipping imported water from Colorado like it’s an open bar on Ladies Night, I want to scream into a cactus. You don’t need a PhD in hydrology to figure out that maybe… just maybe… watering golf greens in the Mojave Desert ain’t sustainable policy.
Drought’s real. Climate change? Yeah, it probably makes things worse. But let’s stop acting like we’re passive victims of Invisible Sky Rage™ and start owning our part in this mess. God gave us this resource — water — and here we are flushing it to maintain six-foot-tall fountains outside Vegas hotels because aesthetics matter more than stewardship.
Newsflash: You can believe the climate is changing and also call out idiotic choices that make things worse. Time to quit blaming abstract global forces for problems caused by good old-fashioned stupidity right here at home.
