Thoughts on life, the universe and US

I have just read an article in the Observer, a London newspaper about Nebraska. Parts of it a reverting to prairie. check it out: http://observer.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,1646659,00.html?gusrc=rss

I wonder how much of where we have lived is going in this direction. I noticed a small mention in the article that the land is thin there; that this community never did grow. Perhaps the return to prairie is good and normal and natural. Are we building in places where there is no sustaining eco-system? Are we building where we should be planting?

We have many empty towns in the Mojave desert. But then, there is not a lot of water. Of course Las Vegas and developers from there want to slant drill and take water from the California side to build more near them. This would destroy the few communities that use the aquifer under that area. These communities would then die and return to the desert. This is not exactly the same as a natural degradation, but rather is a direct attack on smaller communities.

I have just thought that the desert situation is very much like what the US does in South America and why they are now asking us to leave them alone. Time to ponder, Brain.