Prickly City by Scott Stantis for April 24, 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvtJPs8IDgU

https://www.gocomics.com/overthehedge/2022/04/24?ct=v&cti=1451790

Welcome to Phoenix, Arizona. Sheesh!

I assume they’ve verified a hundred years worth of water below them. I’ll bet a lot of saguaro cactus violations, too.

As the Eagles sang,“Call someplace Paradise, kiss it goodbye.”

That’s called progress, to some.

There goes the neighborhood.

I have talked to several people who grew up in what 20 years ago was a small town of about 2,500 people who still can’t get over the fact that what used to be farms and ranches has turned into a massive shopping area surrounded by subdivisions. According to the 2020 Census, that small town is now a city of 38,000 people. With new subdivisions being built all the time. The HS now graduates classes of 7 to 900 kids every year

In comparison to other planets, it’s easy to appreciate this beautiful miracle called Earth even despite what man has done to it.

I was on a planning commission for several years. The joke was which p***es people off more, “sprawl” or “ density”.

I thought they were building a Trojan Rabbit.

Now I will run away, run away!

:Welcome to central Florida… also

It’s called capitalism: infinite growth on a finite planet. Better to die rich than to save the planet, there is no planet B

I wonder how long it’ll take until the the water dries up?