Lake Powell in southern Utah, November 2021. The artificial reservoir, backed up behind Glen Canyon Dam, is today just 28 percent of "full pool" and is a flashing warning sign of droughts related to climate change, experts say. Tens of millions of Americans get the water they drink and use from the Colorado River. Busse says that rational discussions about climate change and conservation have been coopted by the same propaganda specialists who are using guns as a wedge issue to divide America in order to benefit corporate interests. Photo by Todd Wilkinson
Lake Powell in southern Utah, November 2021. The artificial reservoir, backed up behind Glen Canyon Dam, is today just 28 percent of "full pool" and is a flashing warning sign of droughts related to climate change, experts say. Tens of millions of Americans get the water they drink and use from the Colorado River. Busse says that rational discussions about climate change and conservation have been coopted by the same propaganda specialists who are using guns as a wedge issue to divide America in order to benefit corporate interests. Photo by Todd Wilkinson