Letter From the Desert: On the persistence of stupid ideas
I recently had the experience of being interviewed for an NPR-affiliated podcast on the topic of a half-serious proposal for some desert lands that I wish was the stupidest idea I’ve ever heard.1
That idea:
“What if we pumped ocean water into Death Valley to counter sea level rise?”
The basic idea is that a significant part of Death Valley is below sea lev…
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