Lake Mead was at a record low this past year; and it could not be able to provide water for the southwest USA in about 10 years:
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Jason, leaving the discussion doesn't change the reality. Have you ever taken medical drugs? Then you owe the safety of those medicines to horseshoe crab blood. Isn't this pretty amazing news to you? Doesn't it make you curious about other things in the world that are totally unexpected? Science takes us in unexpected directions, and also shows that all life forms are important.
We humans are totally interdependent with all other life and the reason that the Earth is the way it is -- is because of life. Cyanobacteria first split water and made the oxygen available for animal life to form, and all along the way for several billion years, plants pulled carbon dioxide out of the air and put it into the Earth's crust. All life is in balance -- this is proven by survival.
Now, humans have taken a lot of that carbon back out of the Earth's crust and put it into the air, in the blink of an eye.