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There will always be water wherever man needs water. We can dam, divert and build channels to bring it down to the sunbelt from the north. Now, it might not be CHEAP water but it will be there.
Where's the money to build those water projects going to come from?
Already got the guns, the ammo, the gold, the food, the water and the land. It is just a hedge for the worst case scenario situation.
I really do not think that anarchy will occur in the US- no one wants chaos. We are, however, in store for austerity measures and they will hurt everyone. The era of drunken out of control spending is approaching an end, as the US public is waking up to this fact and notes the National Debt as the number one problem facing America. Too bad our president is focused on Obamacare, gays in the military, cap and trade, and amnesty for illegals.
I don't agree. It is more about air conditioning than water. Before Mark Carrier gave us artificial cool air, living in the south or the southwest would have been very hard for most people. I could not imagine life in Phoenix or Miami without air conditioning.
The sunbelt will continue to grow because humans prefer to live in warmer climates. Most people, given the choice, want to live where the weather is warm all year.
The current recession knocked out the sunbelt just like the early '80s recession knocked out the rust belt. It just so happens that now environmental factors favor the rust belt, and it helps that the eastern rust belt cities like Pittsburgh, Buffalo, and Rochester are actually not doing that bad. Nor are Chicago and Milwaukee.
The sunbelt's probably reached peak population right now ; however, if you'd said "the American West" rather than "the sunbelt" you'd be closer to the truth. The Pacific Northwest has ample water and will continue to grow. So think Portland or Seattle rather than Vegas or Phoenix.
People who read the link should be aware that it was written for a blog entitled "The Economic Collapse" and actively sells gold and silver to fearful people. It's similar to the Glen Beck fearmongering - convince people armageddon is afoot and pillage them for a lot of money. If the economy completes its recovery, will they change the name of the blog? They have a vested self-interest in selling a specific outcome, whether it is true or not.
That said - I agree that building Vegas in the desert was a monumental disaster of human ignorance and that the future of the upper Midwest lies in protecting its fresh water from being siphoned off by the megalopolis mistakes in the desert and building environmentally-friendly economies around that fresh water.
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