Talk about your ecological nightmares!  As reported by the San Francisco Chronicle, Senator Feinstein, Dem-CA, recently proposed to divert water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta to central Californian farmers, putting the delicate survival of the Chinook Salmon of the San-Fran Bay area in a death-spiral to extinction.  This of course would put pressure on our precious North-American ecosystems, effecting populations of untold animals ranging up and down the entire west coast.

Stupid you say?  Impossible?  Senator Feinstein thinks not.  Her argument: the agricultural community of the central valley is seriously threatened by recession and a three year drought.  Never-mind, that this proposed amendment would effectively decimate fisheries within the delta, as well as threaten our local California wildlife that depend on these fish for survival.

This all makes you think, makes you wonder, what kind of world we’re living in.  Having started this website rather recently, I’ve had a chance to see first hand the impact of humanity on nature. Maybe it’s just me, but it often times seems as if our relentless push towards this concept of “progress”, is inevitably leading us towards a world devoid of  wilderness or anything natural.  But then, who am I to say?  Polluting power-plants  are powering the computer that I’m typing on right now.

Perhaps there’s a better way.  Could it be so far fetched, that as a people we start finding ways of living within local ecosystems?  Suggesting green housing, solar power, water collecting, or simply building around nature instead of destroying it, used to sound heretical and impossible.  But, what are we witnessing out there in the world?  Here in LA, I’d liken it to a shift in consciousness.  A different way of seeing.  As a people, I think we’re fed up with the way things have been.  We asking “what’s it all for”?  We’re beginning to see that ultimately, our politicians lead us astray, and that our 9 to 5 jobs serving “the man” are somehow tragic (soul-swallowing).

Considering the amounts of overpopulation, hunger, and the type of behavior we have put forth for the last two-thousand years, I think the world is ready for a change.  Quite frankly, I think the time has finally arrived for each one of us to really evaluate what they’re contributing to the world.  Are you the type of person that says no to salmon in the bay area, in favor of agriculture in a naturally arid landscape where it’s inappropriate for farming? Are you the type of person that refuses to conserve water or turn off your lights when you’re not using them?

The decision is really yours, isn’t it?

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