https://apnews.com/article/science-business-flagstaff-utah-lakes-206a1b19e46c6038da5d56c8baf03788 The American West is naturally a desert, only idiot hubris would think you can park 100M people on it without aquifers sinking, water going to zero, etc. Earth rejects 8B people overload as unsustainable via resource wars plague violence etc.