"Death of a River: The Colorado River Delta"

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I saw this video yesterday and thought that it was superb. I don't know what the answer is ... but something has to be done.

 

 

To quote the Blue Legacy page:

In August, Alexandra Cousteau's Expedition Blue Planet crossed over the Arizona/Mexican border to follow the Colorado's dry riverbed to its historic mouth in the Upper Gulf of California where its nutrient-rich waters no longer reach the sea. This short film tracks the ghost of a mighty river that used to run free over this land half a century ago.

The stately Colorado, that same iconic river of history that carved out the Grand Canyon and made the deserts bloom in the American southwest now ends in hypersaline mudflat rather than a punctuation mark of aquatic biodiversity. The Colorado's once-lush estuary is no
longer a nursery for marine life. The people whose lives were intertwined with the river's wealth in its flood plain are now culturally bereft.

Alexandra Cousteau experiences something she always knew in the abstract: rivers must reach the sea or else we are all impoverished.

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Brief Thoughts on the Casey Anthony Trial

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I have been thinking a lot about yesterday's verdict in the Casey Anthony trial which is rather amusing considering that I did not watch or read anything about the trial as it was going on. I know that the majority of my friends consider her guilty. What has bothered me about the whole experience is that thanks to the media and their zeal to create headlines, they convicted her before the trial even started. People want to have some sort of "justice" for the little girl. That is understandable and the thought that a parent could do something so horrific is unfathomable. This lead to a perfect opportunity for media personalities and others to jump on the guilty bandwagon.

Obviously there was something that caused the jury to think that the prosecution did not make their case beyond a reasonable doubt especially as it only took 11 hours for them to render and "not guilty" verdict. People are decrying that the system has failed. I think that the system worked exactly as it should.