Earlier this month, Utah Guv found solution to water crisis: Pray it away.

[AZLD4Candidate]

Utah governor asks residents to pray for rain to combat a severe drought
John L. Dorman
Jun 5, 2021, 8:48 PM
Utah Gov. Spencer Cox speaks during his monthly news conference in Salt Lake City.

Gov. Spencer Cox asked for Utahns to engage in a "weekend of prayer" to combat the state's drought.
"We need more rain, and we need it now," he said. "We need some divine intervention."
According to the National Drought Mitigation Center, the entire state is deemed "abnormally dry."

GOP Gov. Spencer Cox of Utah on Thursday asked state residents to engage in a "weekend of prayer" for rain amid a severe drought.

Cox's request came after he declared a state of emergency last month. The entire state is considered to be "abnormally dry," with 90.2 percent of Utah undergoing an "extreme drought" and 62.2 percent of the state experiencing an "exceptional drought," according to the National Drought Mitigation Center.

Under such conditions, there is an increased risk of fire danger and native vegetation is adversely impacted.

"By praying collaboratively and collectively, asking God or whatever higher power you believe in, for more rain, we may be able to escape the deadliest aspects of the continuing drought," he said in a video. "Please join me and Utahns, regardless of religious affiliation, in a weekend of humble prayer for rain."

https://www.businessinsider.com/utah-governor-pray-for-rain-severe-drought-2021-6

Of course there's that too. Nothing worthwhile, just pray.

Does this party have any thing on the shelf?

[jimfields33]

1. Why the hell is desalination not going on

Ok so it’s expensive. California has 100 billion ready to spend. Do it!!!! Sell it to other states. I’m not saying praying is bad, but these states have done nothing else.

[hunter]

9. Pumping desalinated ocean water hundreds of miles...

... and over 4,000 feet uphill to Salt Lake City would be very, very expensive.

Even near the coasts desalinated water is too expensive for conventional farming.

What will inevitably happen, one way or another, is that water will be taken from farmers to keep the cities alive. Eventually exterior landscape irrigation will be banned and sewage will be recycled back into tap water.

Some people react to hopeless situations with prayer. Some people regard farming as a sacred endeavor. Some politicians are beholden to the agricultural industry and religion... these people pray.

I don't see farming as anything special. In other industries people frequently lose their jobs and are forced to move or find other work when their industries become moribund. Many employees are forced to move at the whims of their corporate masters.

If farmers in these drought stricken regions want to continue farming they'll have to move to places where there is still plenty of water.

If this migration is managed correctly nobody is going to starve. Land that's currently used to grow feed for the factory farm meat and dairy industry can grow food for people directly. Fast food places can sell meatless burgers. And land that's now used to produce environmentally destructive biofuels can grow food as well.

[Kingofalldems]

16. So you're blaming California for Utah's problems?

[jimfields33]

18. Where are the oceans?

I’m pretty sure Utah doesn’t have an ocean. Right?????????????

[tulipsandroses]

2. Ohh, he's late, we did that here in GA when there was a severe months long drought

Prayer for rain On Govt property.

[Buns_of_Fire]

3. Pray for this year's Atlantic hurricanes to hit Utah instead.

Yeah, that's the ticket. Kill two birds with one stone.

[VMA131Marine]

4. Well, eventually prayer will work ...

eventually …

SMDH!

[Just A Box Of Rain]

5. I'd be willing to bet that members of LDS Church and others who pray

for rain and divine help to relieve the most deadly aspects of this drought become all-the-more aware of what a serious problem we are all facing in Utah and the west as they engage in such prayers.

I'm in Los Angeles. Things are serious. Getting through this will take serious conservation efforts.

Serious efforts require consciousness-raising and an acknowledgement that we've got a problem that requires changes in behaviors.

If some folks get to that place via prayer that presents no problem to this life-long secularist.

[AZLD4Candidate]

6. Do you really expect that from Republicans or their voters?

[Just A Box Of Rain]

7. I saw Rusty Bowers--an LDS Republican and one who supports Trump--

refuse to act illegally or to defile the Constitution based in part of his concept of his relationship with God.

Why would one expect something different with water and drought?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

8. John Oliver discussed this Governor

Prayer does not seem to be working

[gratuitous]

24. Au contraire!

Prayer is working every bit as well to solve the drought as it does in preventing mass shootings. You can't argue with results!

[Vogon_Glory]

10. So are these guys going to take up rain-dancing?

I’m sorry, but I’m imagining these Pharisees doing some massive cultural appropriation from certain Pueblo nations and start rain-dancing.

While I’m certain that the cardio would be good for them, I’m not sure it will work.

Plus some of the other Holy Joes will start shrieking about Satan blah-blah-blah.

[onethatcares]

11. on a different hobby board

the idea of creating a large reservoir to trap the flood waters from the upper Mississippi and Missouri Rivers and build a pipeline across the United but divided States was brought up.

The thoughts were, screw the environmentalists and just let the engineers do it.

No one wanted to pay the taxes needed to fund such a project cause after all we gave the Ukraine 40 billion dollars and that should about cover the cost of said pipeline.

Eminent domain problems were not discussed either.

[Victor_c3]

12. The party of personal responsibility wants to take no responsibility for climate change

Rather than confront the drought with actions that we can control, like water use restrictions and building codes that require the use of water-efficient appliances, just keep doing what we’re doing and hope for the best. If things don’t go your way, it’s obviously god’s will.

Perhaps god is punishing Utah for tolerating the gays??

Nothing says “divine retribution” to me like a good smiting, plague, or drought.

[NCjack]

13. When Repugs finally see that prayer does not produce rain, we can expect

some innovative proposals, some which a MAGAt president might pursue.

For example, exploding atomic bombs off the West Coast.

[AZLD4Candidate]

14. dig a huge canal from the Pacific ocean downhill into the Imperial Valley, Salton Trough, and

San Joaquin, funnel it all into areas below sea level and build massive lakes. . .then pray for Jesus to turn salt water into freshwater. . .

Also, make sure all those canals go through some of the poorest areas you can find.

After that, take over Sonora, Mexico and dig a deep hole between the Sea of Cortez to Yuma. . .repeat the praying.

I mean, what else can Republicans do? Nationalize the water pipes and pipe in water from water heavy floodplains and wetlands like the gulf coast into areas of drought like the Central Arizona Project. . .subsidize CA to turn to De-sal plants, an rework the 1922 Colorado Protocol?

No. . .that would be sensible and a long term infrastructure project that would create long term, well paying jobs nationwide.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. If there's no rain, there must be heretics and witches about.

Surely, we can find a solution ... maybe an inquisition would help.

[NCjack]

27. DEMs did it.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

28. Or, as a winger would display at a bleached, dry reservoir, ...

[Brenda]

17. It's not just "no rain."

They allowed unrestricted growth of population and agriculture which has sucked up 2/3rds of the Great Salt Lake.

This is not going away with rain. They are in a Mega Drought. Not really new. People just now waking up to this are in for a world of hurt.

The mass migrations from the West will begin sooner than they predicted.

[newdayneeded]

19. Hello there

I agree with you. I posted about this a few months ago, Hoover dam is already at 60% because of low water. Lake Mead is gonna keep dropping for many months.

Also, 40+ years is no longer a drought.....it's your new climate!

[Brenda]

20. Hello

I guess it's really not a surprise that so many people, even liberals/Democrats, are completely unaware or unconcerned about how serious the effects of global warming are right now. The news barely mentions the multiple disasters that are happening and if they do they make it look like an isolated incident or not as important as other political topics. And they never have a climatologist explain how globally these things are connected.

In recent years major cities around the world have already experienced turning on the faucet and no water coming out yet Americans keep denying it will ever happen (unless it's a result of direct hurricane hit or something similar). They don't seem to understand the long difficult trip water takes from the ground or from storage before it gets to your sink.

Of course there could just be a lot of people who understand this is an existential threat and it's a runaway train at this point but they've decided to ignore it for mental health reasons or have just become fatalistic about the whole thing.

But there are some people, even here, who say it's alarmist to point out these things.

[demtenjeep]

21. I seem to remember our former dumbass brownback guv doing something similar

ugh

[kwolf68]

22. You'd think God

the almighty would be privy to the current drought state and send rain without being demanded to do so.

The more I hear from religious people the further from religion I go.

[sarisataka]

23. It can't hurt

Also perhaps ask the Native People if they would do a rain dance.

In conjunction I would suggest creating a comprehensive water management program using worst-case projections. It has been said God/ the Great Spirit/ Cosmic Force/ reality favors those who help themselves.

[Lil Liberal Laura]

25. Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeres Spencer!

June 3, 2021

[roamer65]

26. God doesn't stop CO2 emissions.

We do.



UT has a moron for governor.