...closed the american western frontier in 1890...like many at the time ( and not a few today...because of the rail splitter's federal legacy and a nativist yahoo mindset among the retired fucks that live in the unstable and utterly unsustainable sun belt ) he thought manifest destiny to be written in stone instead of a transitory experiment in cultural displacement...now the gradual death of cheap energy and the insane overdraft of the ogallala aquifier seem poised to reopen the west to migration and settlement over the next few centuries...phoenix and las vegas are doomed as the hoover dam silts up and lake meade becomes a mud puddle...meanwhile the ogallala aquifier spreads across eight states from southern north dakota to texas and new mexico...it recharges at about an inch a year so that leaves the system that irrigates about a fifth of the cropland west of the mississippi river with an annual overdraft of only 2.7nfeet ( and that is down due to conservation measures )...recent events should show that rainfall west of big muddy is an iffy proposition at best...the old nineteenth century saw that " rain follows the plow " is rank bullshit and has been proved so time and again by things like the dust bowl ( those nice circular fields that have been adapted to rolling sprinklers fed by centrifugal pumps were created by cutting down thousands of trees planted by he ccc during the great depression to act a windbreaks to prevent the erosion that created the dust bowl...they are gone now and as the area turns to dust once again guess what is going to re-occur? )...so as the experiment that released immigrants " from european mindsets" and allowed americanism to flourish retreats the frontier will reopen to cultures that have proved able to live within the limits imposed by the ecosphere...a repopulation of northwestern mexico is in the offing despite john mccain and his yahoo constituents...the border fence will become a joke as the federal government contracts...not because of anything that cretin grover nordquist does but because the overshoot we are going to have to deal with will defy any government...guadalupe-hidalgo isn't worth the paper it's written on but not for the reasons anyone who still believes in the "american century" will ever be able to grasp.
...closed the american western frontier in 1890...like many at the time ( and not a few today...because of the rail splitter's federal legacy and a nativist yahoo mindset among the retired fucks that live in the unstable and utterly unsustainable sun belt ) he thought manifest destiny to be written in stone instead of a transitory experiment in cultural displacement...now the gradual death of cheap energy and the insane overdraft of the ogallala aquifier seem poised to reopen the west to migration and settlement over the next few centuries...phoenix and las vegas are doomed as the hoover dam silts up and lake meade becomes a mud puddle...meanwhile the ogallala aquifier spreads across eight states from southern north dakota to texas and new mexico...it recharges at about an inch a year so that leaves the system that irrigates about a fifth of the cropland west of the mississippi river with an annual overdraft of only 2.7nfeet ( and that is down due to conservation measures )...recent events should show that rainfall west of big muddy is an iffy proposition at best...the old nineteenth century saw that " rain follows the plow " is rank bullshit and has been proved so time and again by things like the dust bowl ( those nice circular fields that have been adapted to rolling sprinklers fed by centrifugal pumps were created by cutting down thousands of trees planted by he ccc during the great depression to act a windbreaks to prevent the erosion that created the dust bowl...they are gone now and as the area turns to dust once again guess what is going to re-occur? )...so as the experiment that released immigrants " from european mindsets" and allowed americanism to flourish retreats the frontier will reopen to cultures that have proved able to live within the limits imposed by the ecosphere...a repopulation of northwestern mexico is in the offing despite john mccain and his yahoo constituents...the border fence will become a joke as the federal government contracts...not because of anything that cretin grover nordquist does but because the overshoot we are going to have to deal with will defy any government...guadalupe-hidalgo isn't worth the paper it's written on but not for the reasons anyone who still believes in the "american century" will ever be able to grasp.
this conference may be of interest to you:
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think I may present on how Kiowa,Comanche & Apache remember the 1930 Dust Bowl
looks interesting coach...believe i will spend part of the holiday weekend perusing it
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