'The health and well-being of the citizens of the Wasatch Valley often take a second fiddle to money and local politics,' writes E. Thomas Nelson, an emergency physician in Salt Lake City and a board member of Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment.
The town of Keeler, Calif., alongside the dry Owens Lake, March 20, 2022. The town, once a thriving community on the shore of Owens Lake, emptied out after the lake disappeared. Only about 50 residents remain.As a native of Salt Lake City, when friends or acquaintances come in town to visit, I almost always field the inevitable question about the Great Salt Lake.
But if history has taught us anything, it’s that money talks, and until people are faced with something head-on, some politicians will drag their feet and avoid the science as much as possible in order to stay in office. The list goes on and on. The health and well-being of the citizens of the Wasatch Valley often take a second fiddle to money and local politics. If you can push the science off as fake news, avoid and defer, future generations can deal with the consequences while current politicians and the ultra wealthy let the good times roll.
Unlike climate change, which will destroy future generations, the Great Salt Lake drying up could potentially start to destroy this current generation. Perhaps the time to consider ways to decrease global warming, decrease Wasatch Valley pollution levels and increase water conservation is now.
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