Beyond Belief
This story is truly beyond belief. And perhaps the most amazing aspect is why there’s no organized opposition to it.
While increasing areas of the world are suffering from drought and shrinking aquifers, Arizona is planning a massive water park. Only Las Vegas is more brash.
It’s another case of a nut job, selfish developer, willing to literally suck the life out of the environment so he can become filthy rich. He’s already filthy rich but believes he needs more. The developer, Richard Mladick (pronounced with a heavy emphasis on A-Dick), wants to build a wave pool and water park in Arizona. Arizona gets around 8 inches of rain annually. Waveyard will initially require 50 million gallons of water and another 60 to 100 million gallons annually, supposedly obtained from a well with elevated levels of arsenic. The water will be treated to make it “suitable” for swimming.
There’s even a retail shopping “village” so you can buy a bunch of cheap, unneeded shit to complete your experience.
As expected, the whole thing was sold under the lank premise of new jobs and millions of dollars in revenue for an area with a low tax base.
The glaring audacity of humans never fails to floor me, nor do the utter, ruinous levels of myopia and ignorance. Humans are like crack addicts, willing to do ANYTHING for money and the fulfillment of their pathetic, selfish desires, even if it means placing current and future generations of humans and non-humans at risk of losing the basic necessities of life.
There’s a damn good reason why certain groups of American Indians attempted to completely wipe out white settlers. Some of them apparently understood the real intention of our ancestors, and although they may not have envisioned massive cities and water parks, they fully understood misuse of resources and the ultimate result of white encroachment.
In the end, it was all about money. For, as Black Elk said, “the yellow metal they worship that makes them crazy.”