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Sustainable living is a laudible ideal but the math does not support it.  Take a town as small as Lebenon.  If everyone laid claim to the 10 acres needed to support one person over an entire year, there would be 190,000 acres or about 300 square miles.  Then how would each parcel get enough water?
It is unfortunate that our population has grown to a size that cannot be support on the available land.
As much as I would like it to be part of the solution, I'm fraid it is not.

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I personally don't think the migration will be sudden: knowledge of what is happening is not a sudden change in the population.  By 2012, I doubt that the number of people that really believes things in Southern California and Nevada are any different.  There is money involed and investors will work to keep their fiscal stream flowing even if the water isn't.

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GLOBAL Warming does not mean LOCAL Warming.  Some places will be warmer or colder, some will be wetter or drier.  This enability to forcast what will happen in any given place is in the most part of why we can not get the general public involved to the point of acting.
At this time the best we can do is reduce our production of carbon dioxide.
With a warmer Global Climate, more water vapor will be pulled from the oceans into the atmosphere and where that greater amount of water comes down will be the most important part in the next few decades.  If it drops in central Oregon it will be much much wetter; but, if the higher temperatures, the high altitude winds may push it further east and make the Valley a desert.
Do not trust anyone who says they know exactly what will happen.

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