Los Angeles was a desert, you know..

Ok, this is something I have been thinking about lately, ever since my wife and I moved from one town in Los Angeles to another. One large city, completely different climates throughout the entire thing. See, we used to live in the HOT part of Los Angeles, which used to look like this before people moved in:

It now looks like this:

Living in the old “desert” we used to live in, we spent a fortune on air conditioning. For months on end it is 100 degrees outside. And there are so many people crammed into that area that it always seems suffocating…(well, maybe thats cause the air was so bad too) And now that I have moved out of that area, it just doesnt make sense to me why people ever decided it was a good idea to move into a desert and try to change it into something its not. There is no water there. There are no trees there. The only things you can grow are oranges and avocados now. Really, there is no reason to live there unless you like tanning while laying on some dirt. All these cities that used to be deserts…Las Vegas, Phoenix, Los Angeles..they make no sense. Living in one of these places uses WAY more resources than a human should need to use to survive; they have to pipe in water, build more roads to get to the store which could be miles away, truck in all the food and plant non-native trees just to get some shade…its just strange.

Honestly, I have no idea why this is just now dawning on me, that we really shouldnt try to change the desert into a livable area…there is so much land and space to use that can be used “as-is”…why we have to suburbanize sand I just will never understand.

Now we live near the water, which seems to be a little more reasonable. But still, it bothers me that this all used to be desert. One day it will return to being a desert, whether its in 10 years or 1000 years, and thats the way it should be.

Guess I better get started finding that farm in the midwest where I can grow real food and dig for my own water!

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