The Green Fresh Water Revolution

The Green Fresh Water Revolution

They now say it is inevitable that the Polar Ice Caps will melt and that the subsequent rise in the Sea Levels will inundate more than a great many major Urban, Metropolitan, Trade and Industrial Centers. The consequences for our Civilization would likely be devastating. But we may have 50 years, which should be plenty of time to do something.

The major portion of the World’s railway systems were built in 50 years. The remarkable system of intersecting Highways was built in 50 years. Well, to prevent the expected flooding, all that needs be done is to move a great deal of Oceanic Waters inland into fresh water reservoirs. 50 years is more than enough time.

Then there are added benefits to be accrued. Right now, as it is, there are a great many quarrels between various regions over allocations of limited supplies of Fresh Water. Everyone, mostly, still depend upon the Rivers that
God has provided. Where there are no rivers, there is little agriculture. It creates quite a waste. One has only to envision the greater part of the Euro-Asian Continent, which could be fertile for two harvests a year in the North, and three or four in the South, but which goes arid for the lack of water. Moving Fresh Water inland from the Oceans would solve two problems with one engineering effort – we could preclude the Flooding of the coasts, and we could greatly increase our arable lands.

Indeed, once water is moved inland, it would be natural that it would be put to more use than simply having it sit idly in reservoirs. It would certainly occur to somebody to create urban residential Forests. Already it has been observed, in regions such as the Urban Center of Atlanta Georgia, that the great spreads of concrete and asphalt have served to dry out and heat up the climate of the Region. They have created a desert for themselves that was not there previously. Well, with some planning, such Urban Centers could be made instead into Rain Forests. What would need be done for this? Well, building could be constructed with earthen roofs, planted with grasses and even with trees. Roads could be lined with trees. Parks could be much more extensively planted. Parking lots could be relieved with as many trees as they now make room for lighting fixtures.

Much of Global Warming is attributed to higher concentrations of Atmospheric Carbon. With a larger quantity of inland fresh water being applied to organic growth, both in agriculture and for forestation, more of the Earth’s Carbon could be tied up in plant matter, eliminating the greater quantities from the atmosphere.

Also, we might consider that whereas now a great deal of carbon is resolved in the Ocean’s plankton, we must consider that regardless of all our good intentions, that the Oceans will eventually be completely poisoned, and the all important planktons entirely killed off. So we should not waste time in projecting that we should begin to do upon the land what was before done at sea. The planktons are, after all, nothing more than simple little plants, but there had always been a lot of them. But if a major effort were made to bring a great supply of fresh water inland, then extensive agriculture and a deliberate forestation program could be made to substitute for the loss in oceanic plankton.

Several means could be used to convert Oceanic Salt Water to inland Fresh Water. First, all river water that is allowed to run into the ocean should be considered a waste. That water should be diverted inland. Also, along every Coast that faces into the prevailing winds, extensive areas of the sea could be covered with a thin dark membrane intended to absorb Solar Heat Energy which would cause a great increase in the rate water evaporation. Coastal breezes moving inland would be dense with humidity, and the result would be for a great increase in rains, and this augmented supply of fresh waters could be captured into reservoirs and then piped further inland.

Also, as progress is made in Forestation, the amount of atmospheric humidity and then the frequency of rain would both rise. As Forests are planted, there would inevitably be more rains off into the direction of the prevailing winds, where, in series, more forests could then be planted. Where first we would have to depend upon Reservoirs to store diverted Fresh Waters, as the growth of new Forests advances, soon enough Water Mass would be held within the more greatly humid atmosphere and with the added plant mass of the forests and the agricultural establishment.

And it could all be done in 30 years. But only if we forget about all that useless Military Hardware and Outer Space bullcrap.

Now, what I had avoided was a projection of just how much water, per square mile, we would have to divert inland to make up for the amount of melt off from the polar caps. I expect that it would be a great deal of water. Not an impossible amount of water. Afterall, we can look at a Globe and see how much Land Mass there is, and see how much smaller the polar caps are. it is my assumption that enough water could be diverted inland to make up for the difference. But, if not, then perhaps the oceans could be dredged, digging for a deeper ocean floor, especially along the Atlantic Shelf, and move the solid materials inland, to be used for construction -- maybe for a large Dam Wall to be constructed to the East of the Rocky Mountains... to make Colorado and Wyoming into one huge Lake.