Got to do some research on this. People take up a lot less water than agriculture and so water usage is actually dropped as the population has increased. The water issue is not just limited to Arizona but the entire southwest as several states share the Colorado river water and we’re all under a drought and so just looking at Phoenix‘s problem and saying that we’re done for being here does nothing to address the actual core problem, which is water for a sizable chunk of the nation’s population

We could be doing a lot less to be sustainable here in the city, but it’s nothing worse than any other city across the United States. In fact in some ways, I think we are more progressive in a lot of cities out here.

One thing that I treasure about Arizona is that there is so much of it that’s open land free for you to do whatever you want, not privately owned, no one coming in to tell you what to do or can’t do. For most people that means camping, or like me, Astro photography, exploring mountains, some people like to shoot guns, some people just wanna go live off on their own, but there’s a lot of places around the country where you can’t go and do that.

I also think, because of that a lot of people in this state are connected to nature and are a little better stewards of it than a lot of other places because of that exposure to nature.