If you want to worry about something in the Rio Grande Valley, worry about the Rio Grande itself. The pejorative slang term “mojado” will soon no longer apply; the Rio Grande is drying up. The farms along both sides of the river that depend on its waters for irrigation are also drying up. Right now the Pohopoco has more water in it than the Rio Grande.
Our environmental problems are also our political problems. Syria suffered a terrible drought before the rebellion against Assad. Rwanda was running out of land to farm before the genocide. Coastal areas in Florida are inundated more and more every year. Hurricanes grow in intensity. We experience the spotted lantern fly, wasting disease in deer, zebra mussels, groundwater pollution from fracking, white nose syndrome in bats, colony collapse in honeybees, the emerald ash borer–I could fill the page.
Does Congress feel a sense of urgency? Is the EPA aware? Are the American people worried?
No, No, and No.
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