How the West was Lost: In America’s first climate war, John Wesley Powell tried to prevent the overdevelopment that led to environmental devastation.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/how-the-we...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2018/09/how-the-we...
Desalinating water would help California's residents, but the energy requirements for desalinating and transporting water to the desert southwest (that shouldn't have been settled so extensively in the first place) continue to elude us.