War Ain't All That Bad.

I was reading an editorial in the NYTimes on Sunday morning about droughts. How many folks are facing severe drougth in most of our southern states this year and for some areas it's been going on for several years. And this isn't the first tiume it's happened in recent years. It just happens to be worse this year. The thing is that increased population in the affected areas are causing water shortages and the need to look for new sources and new ways to consereve. There doesn't seem to be any discussion of telling people they will have to move north. After all, they've been advertizing for peoploe to move south for years and years. So how do they now say sorry but you'll have to move back north to where you came from. Even that won't help in some places in the south and it isn't an option in many parts of the world. Ideas are floating around about capturing flood waters and saving them for dry weather. Desalinization is being used on a small scale as is waste water. The only solution that hasn't been discussed is war. Now, hear me out. War could solve all the problems of water shortages around the world. Okay it may not be an appropriate subject for a Sunday afternoon around the diner table, but it does cut down on consumption. Our congress seems to be in favor of war. After all it appropriates enough of the national budget for the pentagon to wage as many wars as it wants. If you don't believe that, just count the number of wars we're involved in right now. Something like six, and I may not know about a few more. One thing war does better than almost anything else except maybe the plague is to reduce the population of the world. Now let me say here that wars in place like Afghanistan and Libya and Yeman don't give you the same big bang for the buck that a war with India or China or Europe would provide. These choices would have the advantage of substantially reducing the world population and at the same time reduce the population of America in real numbers as well. There's another potential advantage to such a war. There is the potential of reducing the population of the world to that of hunter gatherers again. Hey! No more polution.