Something is Drinking 50% of the Colorado River's Water
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It is so disconcerting how people are eager to scream ' Climate Change' and not look at the main source of water usage/waste and their own personal daily consumption of resources. People do not really want to take responsibility on this level yet.
Climate change is worsened by meat and dairy production. Ending animal agriculture as we know it is needed to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreements of 1.5-2 degrees Celsius. Switching to a fully plant based diet is the most effective way for each of us to minimize our environmental footprint.
Each person switching to a plant based diet would save 219,000 gallons (829,000 liters) of water every year! "UNESCO Institute for Water Education: The production of a meat-based diet typically consumes twice the amount of water as compared to a plant-based diet.
National Geographic:
"On average, a vegan, a person who doesn't eat meat or dairy, indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day less than a person who eats the average American diet."
Diet change-a solution to reduce water use? (IOP Science):
This 2014 research finds "reducing animal products in the human diet offers the potential to save water resources, up to the amount currently required to feed 1.8 billion additional people globally."-Truth Or Drought (Title follows- "How Would a Vegan Shift Save Water?")
Because personal responsibility means nothing when 100 corporations pollute more than like 90% of the population? Stop being a liberal.
@@ApexRevolution It means something to me and my community DESPITE knowing the above and limits to making big change.
But thanks for the label, didn't know that's what I was *lol*.
@@someguy2135 "the goals of the Paris Agreements of 1.5-2 degrees Celsius"
You mean the goals that wouldn't actually stop climate change, just slow it, but would cripple the very economies that care enough to do something?
Seems like it'd be a lot smarter to invest in space industry, lunar manufacturing, and launch a constellation of solar shades to a Lagrange point from factories on the moon
People would rather have meat than water. Craziness.
Its absurd. Animal agriculture must be abolished asap
Abolish all agriculture in the desert. It's an ecological apocalypse.
If you're wondering where the water went, you need to look no further than the plastic bottle of water produced by Nestle.
We have the same problem with them in Canada. The Grand River west of Hamilton is only 2 inches deep in most places because they're sucking up the aquifer for fractions
of a penny on the dollar.
I read “when the rivers run dry” by Fred Pearce before I went vegan, and I’m sure having that information in the back of my mind helped me switch. Really eye opening book, although quite old now.
The Water Knife by Paolo Bacigalupi
So you won't eat hunted or privately owned small farm meat because of mass agriculture?
This is unbelievably awesome that you put this together. I knew about some of this as I hiked from Las Vegas to the Grand Canyon via the Arizona Strip in April 2021.
I saw the low level in Lake Mead. What was evident also is the Arizona Strip which is roughly all the state of Arizona above the Grand Canyon is suffering from 150 years of cattle ranching. It’s dying.
This was marginal grazing land even at its best, spring fed desert. There were once ranch houses that are now derelict. The leases were purchased by one or two who are trying to hang on but it’s futile. That’s the only good news, otherwise they’ve destroyed the landscape. Nature will come back.
Thank you for doing this!
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It seems the human race is willing to go without water for ourselves rather then stop giving it to animals. That has to meet the definition of insanity somewhere.
Can't watch more than five minutes as this topic is giving me a severe anxiety attack. Humans are destroying our planet and all we can do is sit back and watch while policing our own wasteful habits.
Thx for bringing this topic to the fore for those with stronger constitutions than mine. 🌱
I spent a good deal of my working career measuring water flows on the upper Colorado River. In the West, water is a fighting word. Your presentation is top notch. You missed southern Utah and their desire to water golf courses and the lawns of California refugees. Otherwise you are spot on about the meat industry. Legacy water rights are a real problem. Thanks
California refugees not longer have green lawns
Each person switching to a plant based diet would save 219,000 gallons (829,000 liters) of water every year! "UNESCO Institute for Water Education: The production of a meat-based diet typically consumes twice the amount of water as compared to a plant-based diet.
National Geographic:
"On average, a vegan, a person who doesn't eat meat or dairy, indirectly consumes nearly 600 gallons of water per day less than a person who eats the average American diet."
Diet change-a solution to reduce water use? (IOP Science):
This 2014 research finds "reducing animal products in the human diet offers the potential to save water resources, up to the amount currently required to feed 1.8 billion additional people globally."-Truth Or Drought (Title follows- "How Would a Vegan Shift Save Water?")
I agree that lawns and golf courses are an environmental issue. So are fast fashion and single-use plastic (for different reasons). But if someone is looking to make the biggest impact with just one lifestyle change, the switch to a plant based diet is the answer. I don’t even think, from an environmental perspective, it would have to be 100% plant based; I think upwards of 80% plant based would make a huge difference, which roughly works out to 4 or fewer meals which include animal products per week.
Please correct me if I am wrong but I was under the impression that golf course water was in the category of parks/recreation which only was about 8% of the water usage. It just doesn't seem to make sense to go after that when agriculture is up in the 80%+ of water usage.
@@twogood4m394 It is true that agriculture consumes the vast majority of the available water. The assumption being that by reducing meat consumption, this will help to solve our water problem. This will require a tremendous modification of the traditional western perspective.
You mention that golf courses are included along with parks. Maybe so, but if you tour the small towns of the west, each has a municipal green grass park and they are well used by the public. Golf courses are a more recent addition and are mostly private clubs. I guess it is the symbolism that this represents that concerns me.
I was born and raised in Arizona and I do not even know how to begin to describe the sadness I feel at the thought of the Colorado drying up. I do know, that when it is gone, some of the most beautiful parts of Arizona (and the world) will likely disappear too.
All for what? For greed? And so people can continue to enjoy a food system that has been proven again again to be damaging to us in every way possible.
I just feel so tired. Honestly. Tired and hopeless.
I've known climate change was going to screw us all for a long time. However, it looks like it's going to happen even sooner than originally thought, because humans suck so damn much. And that just opens a pit of dispair.
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I share your same exact feelings of tiredness, hopelessness and frustration. It's so, so saddening, watching this unfold and still seeing most of people laughing and joking about it, dismissing it, posting childish "eating a steak rn watching this" and "i'll eat double the meat so your efforts won't matter" comments, so on and so forth. Human beings are killing this beautiful planet, the only planet we have, along with billions of beautiful animals that go through unmeasurable suffering, because of selfishness and greed. Because they can't give up their addiction to corpses and they demand more and more. It's really disheartening. Sometimes it really gets to me and it becomes hard to accept to live in a world like this.
Sorry for the rant, I wanted to support and share your feelings. I hope somehow things will change.
@@NeneChan203 Trust me, I get it. I've been feeling the same way the last few months. With everything that is going on politically and watching the world fall apart, knowing we're basically on a 30 year countdown timer, it REALLY makes it hard to give a crap about anything. Heck, I'm even publishing a book soon and while that gave me a little hope for a little while, I don't honestly expect it to have a big impact. I should probably go to a therapist but then I'd just make the therapist vegan and depress the heck out of them too. lolci.
Part of me wants to get back to eating super healthy and lose a little bit of weight for my book release and put out a good face and the other part of me wants to screw it and eat vegan cheesecake.
@@suicune2001 I'm really sorry to hear that you're going through so much. It's amazing that you've been working on your own book though, that requires a lot of effort and skills, so great job for doing that. :-) It's an incredible accomplishment. As for the rest, I try to hang onto the little bit of hope that I can find. I try to think that through online activism, more and more people are seeing the horrible truth of animal ag and turning vegan, even though, regrettably, it's still a very very small percentage of people... We can only hope and stay strong. I wish you the best of luck though, and a great success.
@@NeneChan203 Thanks,! I just requested a proof copy of my book from Amazon. It should be coming in the mail tomorrow. If everything looks good then actual publishing should be in a couple weeks. I want to make an audiobook as well. I have some equipment to record it but I don't actually know how to publish an audiobook and neither does my publisher. I want to give my e-book away for free if Amazon lets me. I don't want anyone to claim they can't afford it or I'm just publishing it for money.
Part of me wants it to get enough attention I get asked for interviews but the introverted part of me HATES that idea. lol. But if I have interviews then that means more exposure for people to read it and more potential people to go vegan.
My book is very different than most books. I go hardcore into the science, the government regulations, and reports AND I provide direct links to my references. I don't just state "99.7% of milk contains mastitis and 79% contains E. coli." I also provide the link to the USDA 2014 Dairy Report so they can see it for themselves. I'm hoping to gross them out with the truth. Disgust is a very strong motivator.
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As a teen I visited the grand cannyon, colorado river and hoover dam and the location where storm cathrina wiped the skywalk away (I am from Germany and it was the 1st and the last time I visited that impressive land). At 17 my English was mediocre but we talked to the Hualapai folks there and they reported the same thing as the guide at Antelope Canyon. The build of the hoover dam did a tremendous damage to the landscape after damming the river. Depending on the place we visited, the tone changed from criticising the building because of the damage it did to the environment up to plain "yay we got water" attitude at the info cards at hoover dam. This trip changed me since then to appreciate nature more because it can be destroyed easily. It is sad to see that there are even more issues -- not the ones that were espectec by global warming in 2005 when I was there but on top that water deal is mortifying IMHO. Just why...? I highly recommend anyone who can reach this land by car - go there, look at that little river, talk to the lokals what it means for them. It will have an impact on you, because you have so much beautiful nature that is worth protecting.
This is so informative! Thank you for the video, Mic.
Absolutely amazing video!!! Thank you for putting this together. I knew the Colorado River was not in good shape, but I didn't realize it was this bad. There really aren't words to describe the level of frustration for this. Lately, I've been extra angry about corporate greed and have been getting more and more bothered seeing people mindlessly eat meat. For something like this to be happening because people are making bank killing and exploiting animals is next level.
People have been eating meat since forever?! Mindless eating meat? The Earth's climate changes constantly, always has. Should we kill all animals that eat meat since they are being mean to other animals? Also I'm sure this guy's facts could be argued with other facts that contradict his point of view
🙏 this topic is not mentioned in reports too often. As animal farmers see its their right to the use(abuse) of the water. Even if it leaves millions of people with out water.
Another incredible video! Thank you for all of your intense research and time that you put into providing this information.
Excellent information, thanks, Mic!
Sorry, cant figure out what to do...
Literally LOL’d at that Colorado transition. Loved this video and your thumbnails are always so good.
So crazy to think of how much food could be grown if alfalfa wasn’t being grown.
Switching to a fully plant based food system would feed millions more people. I have seen the study.
Ya no thanks i eat meat always will
@@johnlopez5031 🙄 Then continue your destructive habits and mindlessly going about your life. Sad, strange little man.
@@johnlopez5031 Ya thanks, I eat Johnny Lopez and his friends n family and I always will.
@@johnlopez5031 it’s that attitude that has us all in this predicament
It's the end of the world as we know it.
Saudi Arabia owns massive hay fields in Arizona. They get to use as much water as they want.
That hay is shipped back to Saudi Arabia.
They got a lot of money. Laws and common sense don't apply to them.
5:40 even if California is flooded which is a sorta normal thing in winters, it's all gonna dry like crazy in heatwaves in the summer when shit can get as high as 100+ down there in the desert so it's as good as useless. Thanks for the coverage.
here in australia the CSIRO say dairy uses 50% of allocated water.we have the media blaming china and almonds too.seems thats a animal product industry destraction bit like sugar makes you fat.
Out east, we are perfect for growing hay....but big solar is taking up farm fields for solar panels. Yet in the bright sunny west, we are planting hay and no panels ....makes sense. Smh
Well presented. Thank you for opening my eyes.
As a school kid on the 80s, I know Arizona was already taking this seriously. In 4th grade the science hour was about xeriscaping (low water landscapes) and other ways to not waste water at home or in places like school and church.
We also learned that we had to be careful with water and electricity because most of what is produced goes to California.
Unfortunately the Electronics and Farming industries are given special deals there which causes them to not take these limited resources seriously.
From what I understand, many of the suburbs of Phoenix actually rely on abundant ground water sources.
That's awesome, it seems like the residential education is there but the political resource management is...not as you can see by the Arizona section of the view! Thanks for sharing :)
@@MictheVegan I should clarify that I grew up in a Mormon-controlled part of the Phoenix area, which in hindsight had private-level public schools as a side effect of the religiously motivated “meddling” of so many parents.
A couple years later the same school was the trial for a sixth grade environmental/ecology curriculum. Other school districts may not have been as forward thinking.
But the 4th grade state-history curriculum definitely made a point that Arizona-California is one of the few interstate water disputes that broke out in shooting (possibly while AZ was still a territory) and that’s how serious water is to survival.
Thanks for covering this ticking time-bomb problem! It never hurts to bring more light.
Water wise is low water landscaping and in my opinion can look more lush. Xeroscape is supposed to get by without any irrigation, so just rainfall, basically a cactus garden.
@@jeffk464 Eliminating all irrigated landscaping might save about 1% of the lower Colorado River water. But people won't have lawns to throw a frisbee or pools to swim in. The rate of obesity and diabetes would skyrocket. People need a place to exercise safely. Otherwise, they just sit in front of the TV playing video games or on the computer typing comments on CZcams.
My sister sent me a link to carnivore Paul Mason and I was bored so I watched. He said it's not true that raising cattle wastes water because they pee and water the fields. 🤣
Wow lol. I guess he forgot about the food they eat!
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People defending animal agriculture always tell me I have no idea because something, something, something green, blue water.
Excellent video, again. Thanks for all the work you put into getting the facts out in a very clear way.
You may have done a video on this topic before, but I hope you can update it--I'd like to know how legislation in the farm bill, in particular, prohibits people from challenging agriculture in the law, making changing laws nearly impossible.
Thanks for you and your channel!
Yes I really need to do an Ag Gag law video!
Great video. THANKS!
How do you expect it to rain or snow without evaporation?
Approximately 85% of atmospheric moisture evaporates from the ocean. The rest comes from evapotranspiration on land.
When moisture from the Pacific climbs the Cascades or Sierra Nevada, precipitation is going to fall on the way up. When the air continues down the other side, the relative humidity drops as the air heats up. If you want precipitation on the other side, the moisture has to come from land and inland surface waters.
Evaporation is good. Without it you're cutting off large regions of the country.
By the way, I ended the drought, by removing obstructions to atmospheric circulation near Snowflake, Arizona. Look at the current Drought Monitor. The end of the drought starts in Arizona.
Good video Mike! I like it 👍🏻
Wow, cows are thirsty, who knew? LOL
I really like your thoughtful analysis, visuals, attitude and insights. You can pick any number of topics as far as I’m concerned. Likely your audience is intelligent and curious too, so perhaps they wouldn’t mind either.
Love your vids Mic. Thanks for your hard work and critical thinking. Be well brotha!
It’s so frustrating. Vegan food is delicious. There are replacements for everything now a days! We are going to lose so much and for what?!
It was almost dry in the early 70s in Yuma AZ and no water made it to Mexico. The golf courses look great in every state sucking water out.
Living in Phoenix I know about this issue all too well. Even though animal ag is the main issue, I'm always amazed at the fact that the Phoenix metro area has zero water restrictions and surprised at how many people insist on planting and watering lawns. It's completely unnecessary in the desert
So good Mic. Thank you! Do you ever sleep? lol
Last summer, I rode a motorcycle with galloping buffalo in a salt flat that used to be covered with water of the Great Salt Lake. At the time I thought it was really magical and romantic, and now that I know about the Great Salt Lake's fate, it feels more tragic.
California barely rained for years until now. So, it’s weird for people to think that it made a big difference.
Like another commenter said, it will dry up soon enough with how hot it gets.
I follow a gardener in California and he seems to really use the sources of water he has to the max, both rain and "grey". It seems to working well, but it does cost to arrange it.
@@thatsalt1560 Grey water use is illegal in Las Vegas. Only the large casinos are allowed to use it.
Of all elephants ever being in any room throughout the entire history of elephants in rooms, animal agriculture has to be by far the biggest.
The Colorado River is probably running out of water due to the animal agricultural industry and the Almond industry ( not the most sustainable nut due to the water issue) Thanks for another awesome video Mike.
Mic great presentation. Nice use of spreadsheets. Appreciate all the research that went into this. People need to understand this crisis for what it is. All the cities that you listed as the main consumers are huge progressive bubbles with progressive values. If you did a door to door poll asking questions like: Do you care about the health of our nations rivers. Do you care about the wildlife that depend on these rivers. Do you want to make a difference in creating sustainable rivers? The answers in Portland, SF, LA and Denver would be Yes Yes Yes. So we have another example of cognitive dissonance. Where a person’s beliefs and their actions are not aligned. You and people like you need to be on a bigger platform speaking these simple truths in 3 minute news bites and start chipping away at the overwhelming ignorance on this subject. Sorry 20 minute presentations are way too long. But I enjoyed every minute of it.
I favor doing both long videos and excerpts from them for the new CZcams shorts feature. Those clips could also be used on Tic Tok, etc.
You do realize vertical farming can be used for livestock, there is a dairy farm in Utah that has this. The cows are fed nutrient dense grasses, and it is 95% more efficient on water than agriculture.
I hope you enjoyed your visit, anyway! We're colorado proud in our beautiful state! ✌️
Arizona sunshine is great for growing lettuce in winter, and Mexico (often forgotten, but equally dependent) grows green onions and other greens that are mostly shipped to the US. The alfalfa could be grown elsewhere. Cotton is disappearing for other reasons.
Thanks for this information. You presented a very persuasive case for how switching to a vegan diet is an effective way for individuals to conserve water. I made the switch five years ago to improve my health. Protecting the environment is a compelling reason for me to stay committed to eating plants.
It's amazing what a no brainer the fix is. And it's sitting right out in plain site. The Beef industry, meanwhile is pushing out all of the small ranchers and monopolizing into four large companies (or already has)...Seems like they are on a crash course trajectory. Thanks for keeping up the great work Mike!
Love u mate, the world needs people like you
Dang, nice breakdown!
I live in Las Vegas. My family and I are making serious plans to relocate because the water end is near. What makes me angry is seeing the greed. Have we stopped growing and building. Absolutely fucking not. We see new neighborhoods pop up every month. I don’t even use my tap to boil water anymore. We’re into the sludge in Lake Mead.
If farmers had to pay residential rates for water, this water "shortage" would be over immediately. Residents removing lawns and installing low flow toilets has almost zero impact on Colorado river water.
Whoever thought millions of surplus humans living large in a desert would cause any problems. Fascinating.
74.1 gallons of water to produce one pound of avocados.
Thanks
Whatever the cause is, I bet the solution is veganism.😁
What about those ppl that wanna eat bugs? Ew.
@@animatorstanley They've gone astray. Eating bugs is absolutely disgusting!
The more plants the better. For health, compassion for all animal and the planet. 😊
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Veganism may not provide a complete solution but there's no complete solution without it.
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Not farming in the desert and not letting millions of people migrate to the desert might help too.
I'll have to think about this when I enjoy the cheap prices on alfalfa pellets that I fertilize my veg garden with...
Thanks for some real data on almond water use. The propaganda against almonds in California has been crazy as it uses 20% the water as beef and dairy production pound per pound of production. You never hear about the water use for those industries but “evil” almond farmers are maligned daily in California as the main cause of our water shortage. Think of this: if you replace one pound of beef with a pound of almonds you just saved 1500 gallons of water. That’s based on UC Davis and Yale data, not magazine hit pieces.
I just came across this channel on accident via this video. I've been telling people for years we eat too much darn meat. I don't eat much red meat, but I do consume other animal protiens, but slowly working on comverting my family to our own version of vegetarian, or at least highly limit our meat intake. I feel like growing something to feed to something, then eat that thing, seems like too many extra steps. It's innefficient.
Why don't people catch their own water? It boggles my mind that people pay for water when it literally is free.
They made it illegal in some states.
I find it astonishing that no one is talking about the construction of a semiconductor factory being built in Arizona; a facility that’s production is 90%+ reliant upon water.
The percentage that is used is much less important than the total gallons used. How many gallons does that semiconductor factory use, compared to the many millions of gallons used for animal agriculture?
Its like the great un-said,nobody notices until their taps run dry. JW Powell told us 150yrs ago that you can’t use the SW desert the same as other parts of the country.
This is disheartening. This kind of information should be aired everyday on TV. People need to know, but they don't want to know, because truth is inconvenient and most people don't want to give up their animal corpses and animal bodily fluids addiction. We only have one beautiful planet and we're killing it because of greed and selfishness.
Hope this video does as good as the Salt Lake video!
Interesting topic.
i understand that the walmart conglomerate has invested over 2 billion dollars into the scheme to privatize the water from the colorado river. i gather no moves have been made yet to privatize the rainfall but once this privatization occurs and water prices skyrocket we will no doubt need to increase the taxpayer funded subsidies to the animal agriculture industry so we can continue to use animals for our dining pleasure.
I don't understand how you can privatize the Colorado River when it has an overarching agreement which controls all of it.
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Water is going to Big Ag (not sustainable of course) The rains are controlled. THAT’s the big prob.
the alps are also pretty much snow less this year...had a flight few days ago above and there was not much snow at all...its frightening...the next 20 years will be crazy coming to water...
The Rockies are loaded with snow right now and there is going to be severe flooding from the melt this year.
It seems obvious (like so many undoable things in America) that livestock agriculture needs to relocate to areas of abundant water in the Midwest and East, while plant crops come west. That rugged, self-reliant tradition of ranching--almost always dependent on using public lands--also depends on a lion's share of the public's water. Turns out this is the worst area to raise livestock: Neither private nor public land provides adequate nutrition, so water-guzzling forage crops are necessary. No wonder the ranchers got government guarantees.
11:43 is an interesting chart. I wonder whether the dollar value output of a crop is really relevant to us as vegans from a big picture perspective.
I also wonder if the alfalfa and corn listed here being assigned the rate the are sold as feed skews what the industry really values them for- the end result animal product.
There is plenty of water from the Rockies to create man-made lakes in California and restore the Colorado River if resources were put into building the infrastructure. Creating tributaries to collect melt water and run them straight into the river. Connect the Missouri River to the Colorado River is also a plan being looked into. The rainy seasons and mountain melts alway flood the middle of California, destroying towns and washing away into the ocean without being used. Creating large lakes and forming and connecting existing tributaries and rives to collect as much of that water and form a lake much larger than Lake Mead. A pipeline from the Mississippi could help during dry times and wouldn't be very difficult since it would be almost entirely of flat ground to the Colorado River. People aren't going to agree that eating meat is bad and stopping people from eating meat is not going to happen. Do what's logical and easier other than holding on to a personal belief that isn't going to change anything.
1,847 gallons of water to produce 1 pound of beef = 1250 calories
115 gallons of water per pound of fruit = 115 calories
39 gallons of water per pound of vegetable = 290 calories
"The Water Knife" by Bacigalupi is what we have waiting
Stark but well reasoned. A very convincing argument.
You can tear up the script when El Niño 2023/2024 brings its megafloods to the West Coast. Crucially, such destructiveness will be much harder to adapt to than megadroughts. If I lived out there I would make sure I had a lifeboat of some sort !!
An interesting fact about Arizona water usage is that wells are used for agriculture by large segments of the industry. I spoke to the mother of a rancher southeast of Phoenix who said that water is available to those farmers from the river but it is too expensive. They don't have to pay for it.
Interestingly, where I stayed I could see the water pump building for our use. There's a lot of well water in Arizona.
Guess my comment got deleted. Now I know the boundaries...
California NEEDS to actually BUILD the 7 Reservoirs it has had in the "planning stage" for a DECADE! We CAN Build for abundance!!! There is NO excuse!!! Come on, Gavin Newsom! DO something GOOD for the PEOPLE of California!!!
Nestle’ draining it. I am on the Colorado River down by YUMA, it is flowing greatly.
You should also have mentioned the water that goes to Tribal Nations and their usage of it
It's Ne-va-duh not Ne-vah-da, lol. I live in the Carson Valley, at the base of Lake Tahoe, and many of the cow ranches have been sold in the last few years, and more homes are being built to accommodate the Californians moving here.
no way to measure the flow to different places??? haven't they heard of meters? (there's one in my yard; they're actually pretty common.)
Lots of good information, which the media don't give.
Lock Ness Monster?
People need to know about crops like chickpeas and and other legumes. These grow without watering in drought-prone countries. They are basically weeds.
Hemp too.
What about the million or so Canadians wintering in Arizona. There are extra golf courses kept green for them as well as their extra consumption.
Hey Mic, I enjoyed the holiday vlogs.
Great vid . Lake mead is at 28% . Really enjoyed.
It seems extremely weird to me to see people watering grass production. In east Texas, we don't usually irrigate it. Seems like it'd be smarter to grow grass in more accommodating climates and ship it.
They are probably draining it into an underground aquifer.
Shared along with your Great Salt Lake video. I'm trying to influence some very intelligent but meat eating friends that we must rid ourselves of animal agriculture.
This is what is happening on the entire planet; humans have been systematically destroying everything for 70k years. It is absolutely amazing that even at this juncture, where they are seeing what is happening with their own eyes, and *still* no, one, is, addressing the actual issue... (animal ag). I really don't understand why our species believes itself to be so intelligent... Excellent work, Mic!!
We need to find another crop other than Alfalfa. Not everyone is going to stop eating meat but we may get producers to use another solution.
This is an amazing breakdown of what is happening to the Colorado River. Thank you for digging into the details. I would have thought that human direct use would have had a larger percentage of the impact, but I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise that our obsession with hamburgers is the biggest single culprit.
That was always the impression I was given!
They should limit the amount of hay they can export to other countries.
Cartoon app to wait 15 minutes for your argument
it's arrogant to conceive that somebody has this time to wait
I am a meat eater. That said, I learned something from your analysis. Irrigating for beef does seem silly, better produced elsewhere. Dairy is kind of a local product. Betting those ag interests are well lobbied and lawyered. Wonder what pricing ag gets for its water vs. residential/commercial.
Alfalfa is a key crop in modern crop rotation. So if you are a Vegan, think twice before hate on it. The alternative is more chemical fertilizer using fossil fuels.
I would love to see a video on how to fix candida. Is it true that we ought to avoid all carbs?
no its not since you need carbs..your brain needs energy fe..theres plenty of videos on this topic..fats also trigger candida..especially oils..whole foods is the key..but its much more complex you really need to read and look up candida and how to control it..its always in your body just the amount your body produces is important