What Colorado cities have the best future/worst future?

[COflower]

Good Gracious.

Sometimes I wish there was a Catholic nun (is there any other nun?) to slap the people's hands with a yard stick that resurrect threads that should have stayed silent...especially those that had been started by someone no longer welcome and well over a year ago.

If they contain good information, please bring it back to light but this thread is one of those that make you want to slam your head on your keyboard and have QWERTY stamped on your head.

On to your regular schedule. OIL...now it's about OIL. I think Bugs Bunny would appreciate the wrong turn at Albuquerque in this instance.

[CosmicWizard]

The person who determines which threads SHOULD or SHOULD NOT be resurrected is making that determination based on their own beliefs. Apparently, several of us beleived differently and chose to participate in the resurrected thread. No one is forcing anyone else to participate, so let's us keep the thread alive for those who wish to participate.

[Bideshi]

Originally Posted by NewAgeRedneck

The person who determines which threads SHOULD or SHOULD NOT be resurrected is making that determination based on their own beliefs. Apparently, several of us beleived differently and chose to participate in the resurrected thread. No one is forcing anyone else to participate, so let's us keep the thread alive for those who wish to participate.

Amen to that. It seems too often threads are closed because it expresses an opinion not shared by the ones that can close a thread.

My opinion on the future of Colorado cities is that none have an especially bright future, at least long term, because of the increasing water shortage. Colorado was never meant to support so many people, and the aquifers are rapidly being exhausted. Unless some grandious project to pipe in some Great Lakes water can be bulldozed through congress to be funded by a bankrupt fed and paid for by bankrupt taxpayers, I don't see it improving in our lifetime. I see Colorado losing population in the near future, not gaining. Same for Arizona and Nevada and SoCal. No water=no people.

[CosmicWizard]

Like you Bideshi, I don't see the situation in Colorado improving during my lifetime. Nonetheless there may be others having greater insight and vision, who are able to see solutions that elude the limited vision of people like us.

[COflower]

So we are all doomed.

I need not repeat myself so I give you this instead: http://www.city-data.com/forum/5233349-post32.html

[Bideshi]

Originally Posted by COflower

So we are all doomed.

Not quite. We are all heading into an economic hard time but that didn't spell doom for the depression era people and it won't for us either. It was hard times but not end time. We will have to recognise and adapt to a lower standard of living, make our peace with that evil nuclear energy, confront the conservationists and oil companies and concentrate on tidal, wind, solar, geothermal and evil coal*. We will have to get used to certain fruits and vegetables not being available year round. We will have to get used to growing some of our own. Our way of life will be changed dramaticaly, but we will still be living (though maybe somewhere else where there is water) and it may well be a better life than what we have now. It's "live differently" not "stop living".

*Coal will buy us some time, maybe 100 years, and we must use that last abundant source of fossil fuel to transform to alternate energy. It can't be "business as usual" until the lights go out. Nuclear is also a stopgap that will only last a relatively short time; there's not that much uranium either.