#lakepowell — Public Fediverse posts

Climate change, not data centers, behind Colorado River drought https://www.byteseu.com/2354670/ #Climate #ClimateChange #ColoradoRiverBasin #ColoradoStateUniversity #DataCenter #GlobalWarming #LakeMead #LakePowell #SouthernNevadaWaterAuthority #UniversityOfColoradoBoulder #WaterLevels

[Excessive testing teaches students] that learning is a joyless succession of hoops through which they must jump, rather than a way of understanding and mastering the world. Every question has one right answer; the measure of a person is a number. Being insightful, or creative, or heaven forfend, counterintuitive counts for nothing.
-- Anna Quindlen (Newsweek June 2005)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #AnnaQuindlen #Education #StandardizedTesting

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

Tying health insurance to employment is class warfare.
-- Public Citizen (@public_citizen)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #PublicCitizen #Employment #HealthInsurance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

What you do thunders so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #RalphWaldoEmerson #Action #Words

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

Forget about the moral imperative of creating a more stable, just world. The world is becoming increasingly connected and intertwined. Allowing injustice and human despair to fester will ultimately bring a pay back, even to those who might think they are most immune from it.
-- Gerry McGovern (The Caring Economy)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #GerryMcGovern #Justice

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

The genius of fascism is that any political structure can host the virus and virtually any developed country can become a suitable home. Fascism talks ideology but it is really just marketing for power.
-- Toni Morrison (Racism and Fascism)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #ToniMorrison #Fascism #Marketing #Politics #Power

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #LakePowell #SlickRock #Canyon #Utah

The arrogance of ignorance is fatal.
-- Kurt Eichenwald (@kurteichenwald)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #KurtEichenwald #Arrogance #Ignorance

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Canyon #SlickRock #IcebergCanyon #LakePowell #Utah

Colorado River Basin Has Lost As Much Water As A Full Lake Mead Since 2003, Study Says
--
https://www.kjzz.org/science/2025-05-30/colorado-river-basin-has-lost-as-much-water-as-a-full-lake-mead-since-2003-study-says <-- shared technical article
--
https://doi.org/10.1029/2025GL115593 <-- shared paper
--
#GIS #spatial #mapping #CRB #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverbasin #Reservoir #lakeMead #lakePOwell #watersupply #waterstorage #drought #climatechange #groundwater #mining #depletion #remotesensing #NASA #GRACE #GRACEFO #satellite #water #hydrology #population #usecase #farming #irrigation #agriculture #watersecurity #foodsecurity #usage #model #modeling #landsurface #sustainability #sustainable #extraction #aridification

Healthy systems have their boundaries.
-- Lawrence Lessig (Lessig Blog)

⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #LawrenceLessig #Systems

⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Pictographs #RockArt #DefianceHouse #LakePowell #Utah