http://www.lbl.gov/Science-Articles/Archive/west-rain-scenario.html
The website that i have chosen focuses on how if the co2 emissions doesnt stop esculating then the greenhouse effect will destroy precious ecosystems in the West of the US.
"Serious water problems are projected for California and other western states by the year 2049 because of an increase in atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide" says scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab).
They are concerned that it will create more drought and an increase in flooding in places, particularly around California.
I think this website is very insightful, as it makes you more aware of the problems that the West have. Population is constantly increasing in particular places like California where they then have the demand for increase in housing, to which they are building on flood plains making them "exposed to natural hazards".
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As with Becky's and Rachel's contributions, key questions here arise from the power of ideologies - of individualism, of 'free land' - associated with the [mythic] West.
Of course we shouldn't forget the material, economic and social reasons for the pressure on resources - population growth, etc., but try to think about how ideas, many of them transmitted through myths of US history and landscape, especially the West, help and hinder attempts to resolve these problems. Over to you.
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