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Why? We've destroyed plenty of existing natural habitats, if we find that an artificially created one happens to support a range of displaced endangered species, does that make those species less endangered even if it's destroyed, and their habitat less deserving of protection?

That's a ridiculous mischaracterization of the Yuma Desalting Plant. The fact that Arizona's, y'know, completely landlocked and can't access ocean water to desalinate probably plays a role in why they don't heavily use Desalination. The desalting plant itself doesn't make fresh water to drink...

The difference between "People can choose donors" and "Breeding programs to promote desired genes" is basically the same difference as between employment and slavery.

Not if the government won't give them the permits to build, and it's dead easy to get totally deadlocked in permit-purgatory in Califronia under favorable conditions, much less when fighting the Godzilla of Unions. Remember, the Longshoremen's Union is multinational, and when they strike they...

The Longshoremen are one of the largest and most powerful unions on the planet. Automation keeps getting tried but they tend to fight it kicking and screaming every step of the way, and not just through strikes but through legislation, lawsuits to prevent permits, etc. Shipping companies...

Microsoft has pulled LinkIn from China, citing that Beijing's demands for ever-more censorship were getting too onerous to fulfill. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58911297

This. The thing is that election fraud isn't about getting 100% of the vote, it's about subtly tipping the scales so you get 51% of key swing districts. You don't have to change every vote, just make sure your guy has a minor edge. He's already likely getting a plurality so a slight tilt...

That's... actually not the argument you might think it is. If the options that can wind up visible in the hole are two nobodies and one person who should get a plurality, then you can safely count it as a vote for the person with the plurality and not worry about the nobodies getting a tiny...

California did do that. They spent something like 200 million dollars in 2020 on such firebreaks. It's just that everything's horrifically expensive in California and maintaining the firebreaks is too costly for their economy, plus with the amount of dried scrub blowing around fires can jump...

To be perfectly fair, the eucalyptus isn't the only arsonist tree and California has several such trees growing natively. Redwoods are among them, their cones are not only fireproof, they actually do not open and release the seeds until a forest fire hits them and the heat is enough to get them...

I'm not 100% sure if they were charged or not. I recall the footage showing on a local news channel and some grumbling because every other station ignored it and kept playing the green party line and buried anything about who set the fire.

Towns are constantly expanding their borders in order to get more tax base. Areas inside a firebreak are less desirable to build in, because people like big trees near their homes, so it makes it harder for the city to expand. Additionally, you have to rebuild the firebreak over and over and...

Yeah, the Sea of Cortez has been suffering serious ecological damage for a long time because it needs the Colorado river to flow into it to keep the salt content down and said river hasn't made it past California in a long time. You need to combine it with tube coral samples to make even more...

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2021/07/18/megadrought-poses-existential-crisis-california-american-west/ Things are about to get way worse for California. Yeah, they're cutting Arizona and Nevada's share of the Colorado River first because of course California gets special treatment. But...

Unless they also have a Republican legislature, they will then change how recall votes work again to get rid of him. And since California is massively gerrymandered, you can't get a Republican legislature there. That's pretty much what hobbled all of The Governator's attempts at reform...

California has suddenly changed the rules on how recall elections work to protect Newsom. https://www.theblaze.com/news/california-democrats-newsom-change-recall-rules https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article252420883.html This essentially cuts off everybody...