38 Replies to “When More People Move To The Desert”

  1. I love to move to dessert. Pies, cakes, cookies, I’ll move to dessert all day long. Sometimes I move to dessert and just skip the supper.

    3. There were these two guys in the desert shuffling along and desperate for water. They crest a dune and before them is a mass of tents covering a collection of traders. Surprised they shuffle down and ask the first trader if they could sell them something to drink.

      “No, I only sell custard”

      The men nod politely and move on to the next trader.

      “Drinks? sorry, I specialise in sponge cakes”

      The travellers look at each other and move on to the next tent.

      “I do whipped cream. No water though.”

      The next?

      “I could offer up some fruit jelly?”

      Again the men thank the traders politely and eventually get to the end.

      “That was weird. No one had any water.”

      “Yes. It was a Trifle Bazaar”
      .
      .
      .
      I’ll get my coat.

  3. Yah Vegas has quite a sprawl out into the desert now, so a lot more folks are eating dessert in those areas.

    We’ve got a number of oceans that have lots of the stuff, if only they could figure out how to desalinate and transport the stuff efficiently hmmm, they have, can, and do already, however it doesn’t fit into the master plan, so that idea will be ignored. Much better to work at population reduction, than waste funds on such a project!

    There again, 50 years ago we would have laughed at the idea of individuals buying bottled water!

    1. gotta houzz all those CHEAP Guatemalan maids for all them fancy hotel rooms in Vegas. Not to mention servicing the Raiders fans … hahahahaha ha ha ha

      Don’t worry … the TX Gov. has bussed 185 of the 2 MILLION illegals who have made it into Bidinh’s borderless America … to NYC … where there’s PLENTY of aqua frio

  4. What do you call an Arab with a sweet tooth?
    A dessertic nomad.

    “Typo” aside, Canada which has 1/3 of all fresh water could easily export some to needed US locations using pipelines…oh darn, I just used a very very evil, racist, white supremacist, climate denying deplorable word…my bad.

    1. Laying pipe through sacred Tribal lands !!?? AYFKM ?? Wait … did I just trip across a double entendre ?

      1. What’s the desert’s favorite desserts? (A mouth full…tee hee!)

        Sand pudding, camel drool and date squares.

      2. Canadian scientist are working to dehydrate water then it can be shipped as dry bulk and reconstituted on site.

        1. What a novel idea.
          Just don’t say it too loud, the water Scientologists may hear and go to the big guy for grants on how to transport dry water.

    2. Wanna see people lose their minds? Mention the possibility of selling the yanks water. But they’ll gladly fly to Vegas a couple times a year.

      1. when I was a kid there was a plan to send water down to southern alberta and northern montana , hopping water from valley to valley all the way from peace river i believe .

        in the days canadians were proud of mega projects. kitimat was taught in school.

    3. No worries, if push comes to shove, the U.S. will just take what they want from our lakes, & we’ll just protest to the influential U.N.

  5. I am sure some on the woke greenie left will tell you that desserts ( pie, cake etc ) contribute to global warming

    1. Don’t leap ahead to climate change phase prior to passing through the “desserts are problematic” phase, or the “cultural appropriation of dessert recipes” phase or the “desserts are racist” phase or the “think of the dessert recipes buried in the mass grave” phase.

      1. Too funny!

        […]… Obese people produce more carbon dioxide than those of normal weight, the researchers said. Also, obese people consume greater quantities of food and beverages that need to be produced and transported to them, and transportation of obese people requires more consumption of fossil fuels …[…]

        ( from WebMD.com )

  6. The obvious answer is desalination, ocean water could be pumped into the drying up Salton Sea and the desalination could be done there, handy to quite a few places that need fresh water. But California would rather waste money on high speed trains that nobody will ride. Anything left over from that can go to gender studies.

    Desalination on a very large scale could even eat into the rising sea level problem if that comes to fruition, so far it has been a rather subtle rise of about 20 cm.

    Otherwise Lake Mead will eventually just about dry up and the entire Hoover Dam project will be pointless. Climate trends as indicated are not the main cause, increased use of the water is — and part of the problem is that California has an agreement to use over half of the water for the irrigated farming around the Imperial region which means that they have to keep letting water flow out of Lake Mead because most of that only leaves the Colorado River near the Mexican border. It’s not just Las Vegas emptying the lake out.

  7. Typo notwithstanding, did any of our highly paid planners realize that more people would use more water,and everything else?

    I dare say that MORE people anywhere,desert, rain forest, tundra, plains, will use more of everything. This is only my theory though, not peer reviewed by experts.

    More people will even eat more insects,if they have no other choice.

    1. Canada has mastered the ability of lowering carbon emissions while filling the ever expanding suburbs and inner cities with new arrivals. It takes talent and a big heart to pull that off. If anyone can explain how exactly it would be much appreciated.

      1. Bringing people from the tropics to a country that produces 20 times the CO2 per capita??? When we’ve committed to driving our economy back to the stone age, how smart is that?

  8. Almonds, Avocados, Alfalfa…. these specialized crops are using 80% of California’s water. Add uncontrolled illegal immigration, gee no water. Wow, what do the experts say?

  9. Months ago when I did a “lake mead” google search, I got something like a trillion results all saying it was global warming.

    All the journalists, politicians and activists who said it was global warming were lying …as the evidence clearly shows now.

    As some of us have been saying for almost 20 years, global warming is a scam.

    1. Denier! denier!!! … see how easy that is? You’re a “science denier” … most likely a Trump supporter … or worse yet … a Christian Trump supporter!!

      1. “Denier! denier!!! … see how easy that is? You’re a “science denier” … most likely a Trump supporter … or worse yet … a Christian Trump supporter!!”

        And no doubt a white heterosexual male. The worst of the worst…

  10. One just has to look at the incredible growth of places like Phoenix to see where all the water is going.

    1. Three quarters of Lake Mead water is used to irrigate the Central Valley Desert of California to grow lettuce and almonds.
      The rest goes to Vegas and Phoenix.
      Those Bellagio fountains sure are purty!
      Be a shame if something happened to them.

  11. Most of the water is used by California, not Nevada since the biggest draw in Nevada returns most of it’s draw back into the Colorado

  15. Fortunately, there is a three letter solution to any problem.

    Too much carbon? Put in a carbon tax.

    Too little water? Put in a hydrogen tax.

    Think you know the answer to everything? Put in a stupid tax.

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