A friend of mine said he saw a documentary where they were discussing how environmentally unfriendly it is having everything transported to us from around the world today. They said bottled water was one of the worst recent trends because the environmental cost to ship the water was so high, etc.
Also had a comparison of the impact of different wines depending on where it is bottled vs. where you consume it, and counterintuitively, if you are in NY, wine from France is far greener than wine from California, because of shipping by boat vs. shipping by truck.
This got us thinking.... what if we were to dig a new river/moat along the U.S./Mexico border instead of a border fence - in addition to helping with immigration it could serve as a new shipping lane to get stuff from the west coast to the east?? Plus, having a river running along the southern coast of Arizona and New Mexico will help humidify them, spawning a new agriculture boom in that area.
Of course to really get to the east coast, we would have to add a river separating the Florida peninsula. Since the Florida peninsula isn't really part of the continental shelf but is more of a floating chunk of limestone affixed to it, after severing it to create this river it will float off with the ocean currents, most likely ending up somewhere around Nova Scotia, Canada. This will help to solve our rising healthcare costs!
? most likely minimal immigration impact - most of the illegal immigration isn't across the Mexico border on land anyway; it comes in through our airports. I was serious in my post about there being 30 million people in Queens, NY, half of them non-English speaking.
Also had a comparison of the impact of different wines depending on where it is bottled vs. where you consume it, and counterintuitively, if you are in NY, wine from France is far greener than wine from California, because of shipping by boat vs. shipping by truck.
This got us thinking.... what if we were to dig a new river/moat along the U.S./Mexico border instead of a border fence - in addition to helping with immigration it could serve as a new shipping lane to get stuff from the west coast to the east?? Plus, having a river running along the southern coast of Arizona and New Mexico will help humidify them, spawning a new agriculture boom in that area.
Of course to really get to the east coast, we would have to add a river separating the Florida peninsula. Since the Florida peninsula isn't really part of the continental shelf but is more of a floating chunk of limestone affixed to it, after severing it to create this river it will float off with the ocean currents, most likely ending up somewhere around Nova Scotia, Canada. This will help to solve our rising healthcare costs!
? most likely minimal immigration impact - most of the illegal immigration isn't across the Mexico border on land anyway; it comes in through our airports. I was serious in my post about there being 30 million people in Queens, NY, half of them non-English speaking.
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