Climate Change in Idaho
As most of you know, I come from Idaho and most of my family is still there. My sister Judy just sent me this brief report - I want to share it with you.
"It has been very hot and dry. We have had our hottest July on record, with every day over 90 and some over 100. The water wars are on, and if we do not do something this year, we will be in lots of trouble next year. There are 17 fires burning in Idaho right now, and it is not even the fire season - that is August and September. Most of the desert around Murphy Hot Springs and Jarbridge is burned, along with cows and wildlife. The forests are full of fuel and tinder dry. If it starts in around Stanley, it will not quit until snow.
"Here in Idaho we are the product of our success and of climate change. Soon it will be unfit to live here. The mega-dairies are destroying our air and water. You can see the air you breathe 12 months a year now. The stench of open manure lagoons in the heat of this summer has been unbearable. Many people are trying to move. When I was 18, I knew that the greed in Idaho would be its undoing, and it is coming to pass."
Idaho is not a dairy state, nor is it suitable to become one. The mega-dairies moving into southern Idaho are destroying the aquifers, and a way of life that was once the envy of the country. The dreadful way they treat their cows and what they do to the land has escaped notice by inspectors, and is ignored by governments more interested in raising tax revenues than in upholding the law. There are other stories like this out West, where greed and foolishness reign, yet the media remains mum to the growing disaster. Less than 100 years ago, southern Idaho was desert. The land is reclaiming its past. PMH
Labels: climate change, desert, western heatwave
posted by PMH @ 6:41 AM
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Yes, this is the beginning of the Earth Changes in the Northern Hemisphere. They have already started in the Southern Hemisphere.
Also, the political events, such as the islamic problems, are part of the Changes - as the Earth's Energy changes and effects all other living things.
We may be in for a 2nd Civil War here. The forces of Imbalance against Ma'at. It has always been this way - except now, we discount them.
Prepare yourselves, (emotional/psychologically, as well) we're in for a ride.
Blessed be,
Allat - Pagan and Polytheist
That's amazing how we can change the environment so much as to have created our very own environmental era.
Where can I find more information about Idaho changes, particularly desertification to farmland
I’m not certain how or where to direct you. I obtain my information from my family, for they still live in Idaho. What is happening there is readily apparent, no need for a scientist on this one. One of the biggest problems southern Idaho is now facing is with the influx and spread of dairies. Idaho’s land and weather are not suited for dairy herds. Huge amounts of water are necessary for dairies. Southern Idaho is semi-arid by nature, which means, in order to tap into the water supply, the large underground aquifers must be pumped. They are – to the point that it is alarming. Most of the dairies are dirty, the cows mistreated. If you could see what I have, you would not drink milk again – at least not regular milk. Irrespective of conditions, governing bodies do little or nothing, look the other way, because of the tax revenues these dairies bring in – needed money, to be sure. Still, the collective threat to the land and to the weather continues unabated. Certainly dry and wet spells are cyclic. Idaho did get good rain last year, but not this year. The encroachment of desert coming back to threaten farm land is happening. How fast this will occur is anybody’s guess. Blessings, PMH
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